January 2020
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News for the IET21
News for other PEI20
Industry News: Information and Communications226
Industry News: Future of Mobility87
Industry News: Future of Work64
Industry News: Education28

News for the IET

Cyber Security Guide For Ports Releasededit

Hellenic Shipping News

The Cyber Security for Ports and Port Systems guide, published by The Institution of Engineering and Technology, with the UK Department for Transport, aims to help ports highlights what actions need to be taken and by who. Cyber-attacks on port systems are no longer considered hypothetical or simply the stuff of fictional narrative,” said the guide, which noted how Maersk’s security setup left it open to an attack from the Maersk virus in June 2017.

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Cyber security guide for ports releasededit

Port Strategy

The Cyber Security for Ports and Port Systems guide, published by The Institution of Engineering and Technology, with the UK Department for Transport, aims to help ports highlights what actions need to be taken and by who.

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Digital twins give urban planners virtual edgeedit

Financial Times

According to a white paper published in October by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), computational infrastructure cannot reliably handle the scale and complexity of realtime city simulations with thousands of data sources. Data security is also a pressing concern and there are no common technical standards to create a network of interconnected individual digital twins communicating with each other.

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Budget Expectations for the Education and IoT sectorsedit

APN News

Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar, Chairman, IET IOT panel and President, Aeris Communications “We saw the 2019 budget give prominence to AI and IoT under the reskilling initiative, investing Rs 436 crore towards the PRIME (Programme for Reskilling/ Upskilling of IT Manpower for Employability) programme. This year, however, there is a pressing need for the government to take a closer look at developing emerging and frontier technologies.

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Budget Expectations from the Auto Sectoredit

APN News

Atul Arya, Chair – Urban Mobility Panel, IET FoMT Focus Shared Mobility Focus : Fleet operators operating Only Electric Fleets should be incentivized with lower rates of capital to ramp up the investment, Should be charged no GST for first year as they are adding new modes of transport and compete with unorganized sector which anyways doesn’t pay GST.

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Naomi Climer on the future of work and skillsedit

People Matters

By Vallari Gupte

From reel tapes to satellites to now, the cloud, Naomi Climer, CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), continues to inspire her peers and future generations of engineers with her robust experience in broadcast, media, and communications technology. Having played a crucial role in helping organizations such as BBC and Sony Professional Solutions to transition into the digital age, Naomi Climer became the first woman President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, in 2015.

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15 Indian startups working in AI, IoT, and EV space showcased to Helsinki Business Hub and startup leadersedit

Your Story

The year 2019 witnessed more deep-tech startups and trends, and some compelling takeaways as well. These were especially highlighted during events led by innovation, beginning with the Mobile India conference, and towards the latter half of the year, via marquee technology and startup conferences such as TechSparks, Nasscom Product Conclave, IoT India Congress, IoTNext, and Amazon AI Conclave.

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What will technology jobs look like a decade from now?edit

ET Tech

By Priyanka Sangani

Lawyers and doctors will exist in the future, too, but those jobs will morph into tech jobs. “Roles like HR which are currently non-tech will become tech jobs. These will require a tech bent of mind,” said Shekhar Sanyal, country head, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, India. Robotic process automation and bots will thrive in the workplace and HR professionals will need to understand technology and business to understand their implications. Within consumer products, too, things will change.

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IEEE Introduces TechRxiv, a New Preprint Server for Unpublished Researchedit

UNI India

TechRxiv.org is a collaborative multidisciplinary hub that will facilitate the open dissemination of scientific findings in electrical engineering, computer science and related technologies. This is the latest offering in IEEE’s expanding publishing program, which provides authors with additional tools for enhancing their research, in support of open science.

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Growth of Al democratizationedit

PC Quest

Hence, the top 3 predictions for 2020 could be that loT with 5G would be more prevalent; Industries would be more adoptive towards AI, more and more such industries would be data intensive and we will see a rise of extended reality application all over again. Kanya Mandal, IEEE Member and Data Science Professional

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Artificial Intelligence need of houredit

Telangana Today

The conference gave a deeper insight into the current trends in the area of artificial intelligence. Two workshops for training purposes were conducted by Math Works Pvt Ltd India and IEEE Signal processing and Communication Chapter of Hyderabad Section.

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How to Create Events to Help Girls Prepare for STEM Careersedit

PC Mag

Dr. Panetta is an IEEE Fellow, and has received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from President Obama for her outreach work. The award recognizes the crucial role that mentoring plays in the academic and personal development of students studying science and engineering according to the White House.

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Amaravati: VIT-AP hosts IEEE international conferenceedit

The Hans India

The preparations for this conference began from when the first approval from IEEE Hyderabad Section through IEEE Guntur sub-section was received in the month of April 2019, and the final approval from IEEE US in the month of May 2019. Being the first conference organised by VIT-AP and IEEE chapter of Guntur Subsection received as many as 143 papers from across the world.

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Five predictions on how technology will impact society in 2020: IEEEedit

CRN

Over the last decade, new technological advancements have impacted our industries, economies and lifestyles. Now as we prepare to enter a new decade, we pondered how engineers will build upon those technologies and improve our society for the better. IEEE Impact Creators share their predictions for what this year might hold.

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Big Data analytics is a revolution in the field of Information Technology : AHCSSC` 20edit

Sakshi Education

IEEE, which stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers isthe worlds largest technical professional society promoting the development and application of electrotechnology and allied sciences for the benefit of humanity, the advancement of the profession, and the wellbeing of our members. IEEE Computer Society that it is the premier source for information, inspiration, and collaboration in computer science and engineering. Connecting members worldwide, the Computer Society empowers the people who advance technology by delivering tools for individuals at all stages of their professional careers.

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Industry News: Information and Communications

You cant be a successful technology company unless you tap the India marketedit

The Economic Times

There’s been a lot of hype over AI in the past by some vendors. They have made outrageous claims about what can be done and just started calling everything AI. We call it augmented intelligence rather than artificial intelligence. Machine learning is just pattern recognition. The mistake some people make with ML is that they use subsets of data or data samples and then draw wrong conclusions.

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What is a Digital Twin Why is it Importantedit

Express Computer

By Radhika Udas

After moving effortlessly from just the manufacturing sector to more sophisticated technologies such as IoT, AI, and ML, the affordability and reality of digital twin can be realized any time now. Riding high on IoTs connection capabilities, the digital twin has grasped the interest of a few countries that would use it to gain advantageous business outcomes.

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The Role of AI and Machine Learning in Cybersecurityedit

Analytics Insight

AI and machine learning are the kind of buzzwords that generate a lot of interest; hence, they get thrown around all the time. But what do they actually mean And are they as instrumental to the future of cybersecurity as many believe

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Opinion | Cybersecurity a critical challenge for Indias digital payments ecosysedit

Live Mint

Cybersecurity is one of the most critical challenges faced by stakeholders of the digital payment ecosystem. With more and more users preferring digital payments, the chances of getting exposed to cybersecurity risks such as online fraud, information theft, and malware or virus attacks are also increasing.

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How Digital Transformation can create a more sustainable worldedit

Bloomberg Quint

On the ground and in shop floors this can translate into the use of AI, IoT and analytics to assess environmental impact and take steps to reduce harmful impact, set clear timeframes and processes to become carbon neutral and the like. When these digital technologies are combined with agile processes, businesses can embrace new business models and new business opportunities.

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How Augmented Intelligence Will Change the Face of AI Adoption in 2020edit

Analytics Insight

By Smriti Srivastava

The world has witnessed the innovations brought in by artificial intelligence and automation that serve with the greatest benefits to businesses. However, despite all the advantages, their arrival wasn’t a positive impact for everyone. A number of workers were fearful of the job losses and lack of knowledge around automation.

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Cybersecurity doesnt have any specific allocation in the budget, but the government knows its a pressing concernedit

Business Insider

By Prabhjote Gill

There is no specific allocation for cybersecurity within Indias Union Budget. Business Insider interviewed Sameer Patil, an expert on international security, to understand how the government is allocating resources to tackle the impending threat for cyberwarfare.

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Banking security in 2020: what to expectedit

Tech Radar

As technology continues to develop at pace, in 2020 we will see more banks begin to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) paired with machine learning (ML) to offer their customers enhanced security features. Additionally, as misconceptions and myths about cloud security are dispelled, the adoption of cloud technology will also increase.

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Artificial intelligence, machine learning chip in to fight climate change, protect environmentedit

Live Mint

By Abhijit Ahaskar

While cutting down global emissions and switching to renewable sources of energy will help in the long run, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and its various branches, along with internet of things (IoT), can help in the conservation of plants, animals and birds by providing more accurate climate predictions.

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Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Can Solve Agriculture Issues: PM Modiedit

Krishi Jagran

The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi recently said that a new record has been created at the beginning of 2020 by transferring Rs 12,000 crore to the accounts of six lakh farmers across the country. The government is giving encouragement to the food processing industry.

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5 HR trends for 2020 and beyond: Technology will lead and transformedit

The Economic Times

AI tools can also allow employees to nix the continuous handling of certain data as part of their everyday job functions. Moreover, Robotic Process Automation, which Forrester expects to grow to a $12 Billion market by 2023, can greatly automate voluminous, manually intensive tasks.

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Cyber Security Guide For Ports Releasededit

Hellenic Shipping News

The Cyber Security for Ports and Port Systems guide, published by The Institution of Engineering and Technology, with the UK Department for Transport, aims to help ports highlights what actions need to be taken and by who. Cyber-attacks on port systems are no longer considered hypothetical or simply the stuff of fictional narrative,” said the guide, which noted how Maersk’s security setup left it open to an attack from the Maersk virus in June 2017.

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Top 5 Cyber Threats to Watch Out for in 2020edit

CXO Today

In 2019, they unleashed a variety of new types of attacks and used a range of new tactics to try to increase their success. From spear phishing and sextortion to account takeover and ransomware, the threat landscape continues to evolve, and attacks are becoming more targeted, sophisticated, and costly.

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No Digital India without IoTedit

The Economic Times

Last year I shared some of the expectations of the M2M/IoT and Digital Industry from Budget 2019. It is time to review some of the initiatives and their impacts on the M2M/IoT ecosystem in the ongoing financial year while projecting the expectations on behalf of the industry for the upcoming Budget 2020.

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Modified electricity grid code likely to include renewable energy, cybersecurityedit

The Financial Express

The upcoming version of the Indian Electricity Grid Code (IEGC) is expected to include new provisions to accommodate the increasing penetration of renewable energy and address the potential threats stemming from cyberattacks.

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How Will AI & 5G Technology Change the Smartphone Industryedit

Dekh News

Integrates the smartphone seamlessly into the Internet of Things (IoT) concept As 5G networks allow for higher speeds of data transmission, this further solidifies the role of the mobile in the IoT concept. Since the idea is to have every device connected to the internet seamlessly, AIalgorithms along with 5G can take advantage of this and gather large volumes of data to deliver a better experience to you.

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Data Science, IoT and Reinforcement Learning in High Tech Manufacturingedit

CRN

Modern day enterprises need to be very agile and efficient in order to succeed in todays hypercompetitive business markets. Manufacturing is no different. Technology has revolutionised how manufacturing is done and new advances in technology are continuing to make their way in hightech manufacturing industries in 2020 and beyond.

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Cognitive IoT: Connected Devices to Get More Advanced with Sentient Toolsedit

Analytics India Mag

When demands are high and resources are yet to be explored, it is wise to encourage advancement through the amalgamation of technologies and give rise to exclusive mechanisms. Today, IoT or Internet of Things has also advanced to serve as cognitive IoT. Cognitive IoT is the process of implementing cognitive computing technologies on the data generated by connected devices.

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Budget 2020 expectations: Digital Indias wish list for FM Nirmala Sitharaman what govt should doedit

Zee Biz

By Asit Manohar

Budget 2020 presentation is just two days away and India Inc is looking at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with the hope that there will be some fulfillment of their aspirations from the Modi 2.0 Government. As various sectors are ready with their wishlist from the Modi 2.0 Government, cyber India is also ready with its wish list from the Budget 2020.

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AI based blood tests to predict neurodegenerative disease progressionedit

The Economic Times

A recent study has shown the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms in predicting the progression of neurodegenerative diseases in people. This amalgamation of computer science and medicine could potentially assist doctors to adopt more appropriate strategies to treat the ones who are affected by such health conditions.

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AI, Big Data to Redefine Technology Landscape of GRCedit

CXO Today

Surely, the demand for the intelligent use of accumulated risk data will only increase. GRC solutions that incorporate AI and its application machine learning (ML), will play a major role. The key players in GRC industry shall offer AIasaService (AlaaS), particularly to industries where data is too valuable.

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2020 will be the year of delivering digital transformation with AI: Ramco Systems CEOedit

Live Mint

By Ayushman Baruah

2019 was the year of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) becoming mainstream in enterprise technology. With this, Ramco focused on utilizing AI and ML based algorithms to help organisations match the needs of changing business landscape

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Top 7 FAQs About Machine Learning In Indiaedit

Analytics India Mag

By Sameer Balaganur

Machine learning algorithms are self-modifying and continue to improve. These machine learning algorithms in future will take up a majority of the automation sector jobs. These algorithms help in tackling the complex real world problem with minimal human interventions, and there are some algorithms that every machine learning engineer should know. Below are some of the most famous and top algorithms an ML engineer should know:

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Quantifying the impact of IoT in business in 2020edit

The Economic Times

Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved over the decade from yet another concept on paper to fully blown prime technology enterprise applications that render tremendous business value.

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Breach and Attack Simulation or Pen Testing: Which Solution Does Your Business Neededit

Tech Tree

As technologies advance, cyberattacks evolve, and cybercriminals find more sophisticated ways to skirt defenses. Two of the top solutions organizations use to prepare for these more aggressive attacks are penetration testing and breach and attack simulation

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AI: The radiologists friend or foeedit

Express Healthcare

Addressing the question of whether AI in radiology is a competition or synergy, she pointed out that AI will assist the radiologists. It will optimise workflows, permit more time for value added work, enhance decision making and help in the participation of interdisciplinary teams and interventions.

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AI, blockchain to help address agri issues: Modiedit

The Financial Express

As A Result of several steps taken to double the income of farmers over the past few years, India has emerged as one of the top three nations in production of certain food grains and food products, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his video conferencing address at Global Potato Conclave 2020 held at Gandhinagar.

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AI IN BANKING: Artificial intelligence could be a near $450 billion opportunity for banks here are the strategies the winners are usingedit

Business Insider

By Elen Digalaki

The aggregate potential cost savings for banks from AI applications is estimated at $447 billion by 2023, with the front and middle office accounting for $416 billion of that total, per Autonomous Next research seen by Business Insider Intelligence.

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5 Technology Priorities in the AsaService Eraedit

CXO Today

By Sohini Bagchi

With deep technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and internet of things (IoT) permeating more business operations, few enterprises can hope to stay afloat with legacy systems. Data fuels the world in 2019 and the use of AI and ML to enhance customer experience is gradually evolving into standard practice.

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Top 10 Technologies and Innovations for 2020edit

The Indian Wire

IoT and its practical implementation IoT has managed to intrigue for the longest time but the practical deployment was nowhere near. This year 2020, IoT will see mainstream applications anticipated with 5G. Along with it the process will take a number of connected devices. Thus, IoT has chances of becoming mainstream.

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The Truth About AI Improving Your Business For The Futureedit

Analytics Insight

There’s a lot of talk about how AI will take over many jobs. It’s one big reason why people are hesitant to implement it in their lives. For entrepreneurs, AI can look like a huge risk. It feels like a massive overhaul needs to be done in order for it to run efficiently. You’ll need someone specializing in AI to incorporate this technology into your business. You’ll also have to restructure your whole organization so it works well with AI processes.

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ROI in cybersecurityedit

Tech Radar

Specifying cybersecurity investment is no easy task. CISOs face an escalating threat environment, an increasingly saturated security provider market, and budgets that never stretch far enough. When it comes to pitching for additional budget, the situation is made more difficult due to the inherent challenges in proving ROI of cybersecurity spend. It is rather like selling insurance: CISOs must try to put a value on what hasn’t happened the breaches and disruptions that their strategy will prevent.

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REWIND 2019: How technologies equipped NBFCs for futureedit

Bfsi Elets Online

Newage technologies such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence and mobility solutions can help in strengthening governance and risk management controls A standardized system driven by Artificial Intelligence with an independent and targeted governance framework (adhering to RBI regulations and supported by specialist firms) can make an ocean of difference in the financial health of an NBFC.

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How technology is closing the gap in senior healthcareedit

Money Control

IoT devices and smart tracking: Senior citizens have a higher risk of falls, rapid heart rate, breathlessness, low BP etc. Smart devices that can track regular health vitals, detect abnormal patterns and alert care providers is another major opportunity in this space.

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How Cybersecurity Will Look Like in 2020?edit

Analytics Insight

The ubiquitous connectivity and digitization are increasing rapidly in current internet-connected world, bringing innovation into every area of today’s lives. However, these trends also lead to a new attack vector and will create a new surface for cyber threats. There is no doubt that as technology will advance, it will add the rapid pace of market change and the storm of cybersecurity concerns.

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From AI to 5G connectivity to big data; Can technology help tackle climate emergencyedit

Business Today

Strategy to a sustainable, ecosystem demands an innovative and fresh thinking approach. Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and the internet of things, when combined, can be a formidable force in addressing the current climate emergency.

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Emerging Technologies Disrupting the Financial Sectoredit

The Financial Express

The rise of digital commerce, innovation in payments technology using artificial intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and realtime payments; and the introduction of mobile Point of Sale (POS) devices and QR has led to a reduction in the cost of acceptance infrastructure and also contributed to its growth.

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Driving Personalization in Banking through AIedit

CXO Today

In the era of digital, when human interaction is on the fading path, banks must start using artificial intelligence (AI) to leverage big data to offer personalized services to customers based on their online buying behaviors and patterns.

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Budget 2020: Priority should be on facilitating ease of doing businessedit

The Economic Times

With technology disruption being a catalyst for the growth of startups today, expectation is for the Government to make significant investment in technology hubs that will help strengthen emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and internet of things, etc.

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Budget 2020: From tech to food to industry, all want reduction in taxedit

UNI India

JK Technosoft Ltd Chief Financial Officer Sumanta Panigarhi said, The Information Technology (IT) industry is currently going through a transition phase, as numerous new technologies in the form of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive Computing, Data Science, Machine Learning (ML), Big Data, Data Analytics, Robotics (RPA), Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain are changing the rules of the game for the incumbent IT players.

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Automation Of Kill Cycle: AI Is Making Offensive Weapons Deadlier, Speedier, Smarteredit

Defence Aviation Post

Humans in their design would enter the picture only at the last stage of target engagement, while rest of the kill chain detection of objects, their identification, decision to initiate lethal engagement and assignment of targets to weapons platforms would be fully automated. This development would be in sync with the need for quicker response time to effectively respond to future threats

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Towards a $1-trillion digital economyedit

The Hindu Business Line

The rollout of 5G will require a lot of Indian companies to experiment with new technologies. All investments made by companies in internet of things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) and artificial intelligence (AI) for the next two years should be seen as R&D, and extended the related incentives. This will help kick-start IoT, M2M and AI in businesses in a big way.

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From Budget 2019 to 2020: How to sustain a culture of innovationedit

The Economic Times

While India is poised to leverage new technologies, such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning, IoT (Internet of Things) and blockchain, startups must align themselves with the new digital era. For India to realise its $5 trillion economy vision, key stakeholders right from the government to the corporates and individual entrepreneurs are responsible for spurring innovation forward.

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Digital healthcare waveedit

The Economic Times

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has redefined the healthcare sector in UAE, and has the potential to boost global GDP by 14 per cent by 2030800x60014Science and technology are making daily lives easier world over and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is harnessing the power of science and human intelligence in a unique way.

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Despite Slowdown India Inc. Optimistic About Budget 2020edit

CXO Today

He added, With technological disruption being a catalyst for the growth of startups today, we expect the government to make significant investments in technology hubs that will help strengthen emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things etc. Like technology, the other key sectors such as education, real state, fintech, startups and MSMEs too are expecting relief and policy measures that can drive growth.

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Can AI help in addressing challenge of lack of doctors for cancer care in Indiaedit

E Health Elets Online

As we increasingly see technology playing a dominant role in our life, we are also faced with the question: to what extent can technology actually replace experts or humans Today, there is no industry more benefited by artificial intelligence (AI) and technology than healthcare.

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Data Labelling: Teaching reality to computers is a Miracle Solution for India’s job crisisedit

The Times of India

We are prone to look at it as some sort of magic that techie kids are performing, but the truth is Artificial Intelligence, at this point needs help, a lot of help from human intelligence, and in that process hides a miraculous solution for a problem that India desperately needs to solve.

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With Privacy as its Core Principle, Personal Data Protection Bill to Boost Digital Economy, Tech Sectoredit

News 18

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data is mooted to be one of the drivers of the data economy. The Srikrishna Committee report on Data Protection clearly outlines that data asymmetry is the biggest barrier in harnessing data and unlocking the power of AI. As of today, data of Indian citizens primarily resides in servers outside the Indian territory.

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Scope for moreedit

The Telegraph

The last decade in India has been one of digital proliferation and the growth of both alternative and niche media. But as the number of news sites burgeoned, technology use became more about being found on Google and Facebook and less about tech enhanced journalism. It became about recommendation technology on websites using bots to both figure out consumer behaviour and direct them to other stories they might want to see.

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Indians see automation, but hopeful of keeping jobsedit

Morung Express

India tops the list in terms of expectation of jobs automation, as around 71 per cent respondents expect their jobs to be automated. Saudi Arabia comes second with 56 per cent respondents expecting jobs getting automated, and in China 55 per cent respondents feel the same.

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AI IN BANKING: Artificial intelligence could be a near $450 billion opportunity for banks here are the strategies the winners are usingedit

Business Insider

The aggregate potential cost savings for banks from AI applications is estimated at $447 billion by 2023, with the front and middle office accounting for $416 billion of that total, per Autonomous Next research seen by Business Insider Intelligence.

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The AI & ML Fuelled Future Is Already Hereedit

Business World

Budding entrepreneurs explore examples where artificial intelligence and machine learning are already fueling products and services that they offer and in shaping next gen products.

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The age of cyberwarfareedit

Tech Radar

Although traditional kinetic warfare has dominated the events taking place, American cybersecurity firms and agencies, such as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is the Department of Homeland Securitys computer security branch, has warned customers and businesses to anticipate cyberwarfare attacks from Iranian sources.

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Mobile attacks most dominant cyber threat in India: Check Point CEOedit

Live Mint

Given the combined nature of attacks these days, the company recently launched its consolidated solution Infinity Next, which is designed for a multicloud environment, internet of things (IoT) and mobile devices, and networks, Shwed said.

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Human Intelligence By Augmented AI Is Transformativeedit

Business World

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become center stage in very conversation of the future even if evidence of its play and reward is still not aplenty. Entrepreneurs nonetheless understand that this is an opportunity they cannot afford to leave for later.

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Digital to Give an Edgeedit

Business Today

The Industry is focusing on new age technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, Internet of Things, and 3D printing. We as a society should have a clear view of what the future is and what our own actions will look like.

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Creating a Personal Connect with AIedit

The Economic Times

Neon, the artificial human prototype conceptualised by computer scientist and inventor Pranav Mistry, created waves recently. The President and CEO of Samsung’s STAR Labs told ET’s Surabhi Agarwal in an exclusive interview that he created Neon because human beings are unable to connect with artificial intelligence (AI) assistants such as Apple’s Siri.

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Automation leading to increase in cybercrimes: Dr Sanjay Bahledit

Telangana Today

Addressing the participants, chief guest Dr Sanjay Bahl, Director General, CERTIN, said as the world was moving towards automation and digital world, cybercrime was also increasing and posing threat equally. CERTIN was focusing on collecting, analysing and disseminating cyber threat intelligence to benefit those who were potentially impacted by these attacks, he said.

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Speak the language of convenience with Voice Bankingedit

Money Control

One such smart transition is the use of IoT (Internet of Things) for banking. With IoT devices, customers can access multiple banking services like ATM locator, credit/debit transfer, balance inquiry, etc. in real time. The next vision is to have touchless banking, and this milestone can be achieved with Voice banking, experts indicate.

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Safe from cyber attackedit

Business Standard

Industry experts say that the need for data security has become paramount with the coming of the digital economy and the expansive base of internet-based enterprises such as Flipkart, Amazon, Swiggy, Ola and many others. “With economies increasingly integrated with cloud, block chain, artificial intelligence, cybercrime is seen as the greatest threat to every profession, industry, and company in the world.

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Robots and Humans: Combined potential will help businesses deliver unprecedented resultsedit

Business Today

The market in India for robots is expected to emulate global trends. With a low robot density in the manufacturing industry (4 industrial robots per 10,000 employees). India is poised for an industrial automation revolution. Industrial robot sales reached a new record of 4,771 in 2018, up 39 per cent from the previous year (one of the highest among the largest markets).

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No business can stay untouched from the Artificial Intelligence revolution: Telangana Minister KTRedit

Wio News

Talking about the importance of Artificial Intelligence in various sectors, Minister KTR said, No business can stay untouched from the AI revolution. AI must be factored into every policy or strategy, whether government, IT, non-IT industries. We consider AI to be integral to all our work and hence in Telangana, we have dedicated 2020 to the year of AI.

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Is Artificial Intelligence All Set To Revolutionize Digital Marketingedit

CIOL

In 2015, Google introduced Rankbrain, a Machine Learning based search engine algorithm that helps Google process search results and returns relevant answers to the user. The algorithm uses Artificial Intelligence to parse and respond to user queries in a manner close to how a human would.

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Indian businesses most likely to have high impact of cybersecurity incidentsedit

Deccan Chronicle

The report highlights that India is most likely to have a high impact (58 per cent) of cybersecurity incidents. The report further identifies data breach, data tampering, and fraud as the top three risks Indian enterprises will be prone to in 2021, in addition to newer risks such as defacement.

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Goodbye, smartphone decade…edit

Business Standard

The sharing economy is built on the smartphone foundation with the help of other technologies such as cloud computing. Smartphone communication is mediating our careers and communities and having a salutary effect along with another recent trend: The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in almost every walk of life.

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Deepening tech innovation ties on BRICS agenda this year: Reportedit

Express Computer

What small companies are creating in terms of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) has not yet been created by big ones it has not been created by anyone, for that matter, he added.

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AR-VR Can Be The Healthcare Game Changeredit

PC Quest

With the vast potential of the virtual world, it’s no wonder that most of the big tech players have come up with AR-VR platforms. Microsoft, Sony Corporation HTC, Samsung and Amazon are leading the pack but other big players include Unity 3D, OpenVR, Unreal, Vuforia, Google VR, Amazon Sumerian, AR Core and Apple’s AR Kit

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Artificial General Intelligence: An Advancement to Foreseeedit

Analytics Insight

By Priya Dialani

A key part of the account of Artificial General Intelligence is Moore’s Law, named after Intel fellow co-founder Gordon Moore, who anticipated a doubling in the number of transistors on integrated circuits every two years. Today, Moore’s Law is commonly expected to mean computers multiplying in speed every 18 months

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AI is more profound than fire: Pichaiedit

Hindustan Times

Google’s chief executive officer (CEO) has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s more profound than fire or electricity,” Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.

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Why Senior Leaders Must Take Lead for Cybersecurity Across Businesses?edit

Analytics Insight

By Vivek Kumar

The significance of cybersecurity is no more a secret to anyone in today’s digital world. But there are a number of structural and organizational issues that obscure the process of deploying business-driven, risk-management-oriented cybersecurity operating models within a company. So, understanding the issue is quite distinct for addressing it and only continuous support from top management can ensure progress while easing the risk of cyberattacks eventually.

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Survey shows Indian companies most familiar with concept of cybersecurity in APAC regionedit

The Economic Times

APAC Cyber Resiliency and Risk Report said that 98% of Indian companies surveyed were likely to invest more in security due to regulation. India is most likely to have high impact (58%) of cybersecurity incidents on businesses compared with 42% in Singapore and 16% in Australia. India also topped the list in belief in cyber resilience.

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NO Fingerprick: AI can detect lowglucose levels via ECG beatsedit

Medical Dialogues

By Hina Zahid

Our innovation consisted in using artificial intelligence for automatic detecting hypoglycemia via few ECG beats. This is relevant because ECG can be detected in any circumstance, including sleeping, said Dr Leandro Pecchia

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India making progress in cybersecurity, threats fall in 2019: Kasperskyedit

Business Standard

“India has shown a positive progress in their fight against cybercriminals. The country reportedly saw a fall in the number of threats in 2019 as compared to 2018,” it said in a statement here on Tuesday.

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How the Internet of Things will transform consumerism, enterprises, and governments over the next five yearsedit

Business Insider

By Shelagh Dolan

The Internet of Things is fueling the data based economy and bridging the divide between physical and digital worlds. Consumers, companies, and governments will install more than 40 billion IoT devices worldwide through 2023.

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Enterprise Security: Why securing AI systems makes senseedit

The Financial Express

By Sajan C Kumar

ManageEngine, the IT management division of Chennai based Zoho Corp, says that enterprises in 2020 will realise the importance of securing their Artificial Intelligence (AI) system while seeing value in investing in explainable AI technologies. The findings emerged in a report by ManageEngine which has collated six trends in the IT management industry.

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Banking 4.0 How humans will continue to remain indispensableedit

CNBC TV18

Indias banking and financial sector is no stranger to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Bots and automation have been an integral part of the banking process for several years now. And yet, the radical change thats set to transform the way the world banks is far grander than simple AI driven processes.

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AI more feared than atom bomb now, but technology is for good: Huawei CEOedit

Business Standard

iStockTech giant Huaweis founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei on Tuesday said atom bombs were the biggest fear once, but now there is fear over artificial intelligence, but people must realise that the development of technology is for good.

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Year 2020: The future of Internet of Things (IoT) in Indiaedit

CIOL

Internet of Things (IoT) is not just about computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones anymore. An exciting wave of future IoT devices and applications will emerge. A multitude of devices are internet connected including refrigerators, washing machines, Air conditioners, robotic vacuum cleaners, door locks, LED lights, and more.

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What Is The Current State of Omnipresent AI Across Businesses?edit

Analytics Insight

By Vivek Kumar

Artificial Intelligence these days is everywhere and in everything, from manufacturing and production to our home and now in our toothbrush. AI, in some way, has occupied everyplace today. Looking at industry reports, nearly 40 percent of businesses already make use of this technology. It is being used in health care, wellness and warfare, analyzing everything and every moment, and assisting people to take better images, making music, and foods.

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Real-Ty Intelligenceedit

Business Today

By Gautam Das

IoT, meanwhile, also has a use case in safety and security in real estate. Not just in commercial properties but also in residential areas. Property developer Mahindra Lifespaces says that it doesn’t want to just bank on scanners and a network of cameras for home security. The company says select homes it develops can come prefitted with a range of sensors that cover gas leaks to glass breaks.

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Opinion | Machine learning reveals computers as bad studentsedit

Live Mint

Artificial intelligence (AI) is deeply linked with machine learning (ML). In fact, almost all of AI today is simply ML in other words, an attempt to get a computer to make itself more efficient at its task without the need for human intervention. As an investor in deeptech and science companies, I have had the occasion to see several startups that claim to use AI/ML.

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Karnataka to set up centre for internet of ethical things in Bengaluruedit

The New Indian Express

During the meeting, the delegates discussed the impact of artificial intelligence (AI), especially the ethical aspects and its linkage with the Internet of Things (IoT). Over the next few years, autonomous systems, devices, and organizations will become increasingly commonplace. Industry, consumers and governments are using AI for automation and decision making.

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How can Indian companies thrive in a disruption fueled worldedit

Bloomberg Quint

Peppered with success stories of organizations that have embraced digital and witnessed a sea change in business returns, the journal is a compelling read. A pertinent case in point is that of the tea and coffee vending machines of one of Indias largest FMCG giants, which harnessed the power of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) to accelerate growth in their business.

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Here’s what these 5 CIOs believe would be the next big thing in the Insurance sectoredit

The Economic Times

By Riya Pahuja

Insurance companies are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to deploying the latest technologies be it automation, artificial intelligence or machine learning. In conversation with ETCIO, CIOs and technology leaders of five top insurance companies throw light on what they think is the Next big thing in insurance sector

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Global 5G leaders create 5G Future Forumedit

CXO Today

This gives organizations worldwide the ability to deliver a wide range of transformative business and consumer use cases, like machine learning at the edge, autonomous industrial equipment, smart cars and cities, Internet of Things (IoT), augmented and virtual reality, and more.

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Can AI Systems Be Unethical The Answer Is Yesedit

Huffington Post

The difference between natural and artificial intelligence is that a person strongly biased against a group of people would avoid showing their bias for fear of social censure. An artificially intelligent system doesn’t feel the same restraint—and because we don’t understand how these systems work, the biases seem like rational, reasonable choices.

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AI Detects Mental Health Changes In Patients, As Per Studyedit

Express Computer

By Radhika Udas

Artificial Intelligence has been at the crux of Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL) operations after AI proved to give accurate results. SAIL, in its recent collaboration with researchers from UCLA, is working on analyzing voice data of patients suffering from serious mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depressive disorders.

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AI & Machine Learning Path: A Definitive Guideedit

Analytics India Mag

Artificial intelligence is currently one of the hottest buzzwords in tech with good reason. In the last few years, we have seen several technologies previously in the realm of science fiction transform into reality.

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What Are The Distinctive Societal Drivers For Future AI Researches?edit

Analytics Insight

As AI has permeated our lives most innovatively, the interest and investment are expected to grow further to drive the innovation engine across all sectors of society. Such large scale investments by government or private firms will create a long-appraised impact on society and its citizens.

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What ails Indias pharmaceutical sectoredit

The Economic Times

Recently, the pharma industry has begun to belatedly embrace new technologies such as mobile, cloud, analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). In India, a rethink is needed as to the way the pharma business is done. Today, medicines are manufactured using a batch process that is wasteful and inefficient.

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Top trends for logistics and SCM segment for 2020edit

Deccan Chronicle

Internet of Things: IoT is making the logistics and supply chain smarter by integrating various software and machines to create a unique, manageable system. IoT provides, the management of the supply chain increased efficiencies through integrations across platforms that will lead to a higher adoption rate amongst service providers and customers alike.

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Only 13% Use AAA for Changeedit

The Economic Times

Only 13% of finance organisations use artificial intelligence, analytics and automation (AAA) for enterprise transformation, according to Genpact Research. A new survey of over 500 chief financial officers and senior finance executives across 11 countries, Finance and Accounting: Unleashing Transformation , found that enhancing customer and user experiences were now top priority for executives, ahead of cost and cash flow.

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Is Artificial Intelligence the key to unlock the limitless possibilities in Healthcareedit

CIOL

Digital technologies are changing at an unprecedented pace with more and more IoT devices, wearables, sensor enabled devices, cloud storage etc. coming up, and we are using them at a similar pace. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are taking the major scoop of technological development and leading the digital transformation era.

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How is Artificial Intelligence shaping the healthcare and pharma industryedit

E Health Elets Online

Artificial Intelligence or AI has become one of the mainstay technologies of the healthcare industry. AI refers to the use of automated algorithms to perform tasks which conventionally count on human intelligence. The use of AI has not been so extensively accepted in the pharma industry.

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Digitising farming system is key for sustainable agri productivity: UASedit

FNB News

Even Internet of Things (IoT) is equipped to identify data transmission which is widely used to detect animal health and regulate water flow into the farm lands. In addition, solar lights and nuclear energy enable regular power supply. The application of nuclear energy is contributing to food security.

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CEOs worried about cybersecurity: Infosysedit

The Times of India

About 48% of corporate boards and 63% of business leaders are actively involved in cybersecurity strategy discussions across the globe, an Infosys report said. The top concerns faced by enterprises are hackers/ hacktivists (84%), low awareness of security among employees (76%), insider threats (75%), and corporate espionage (75%), said the companies in the survey.

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About Quantum AI – AI Along With Quantum Mechanicsedit

Analytics Insight

Artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are routinely used to foresee our purchasing behaviour and to perceive our faces or handwriting. In scientific research, artificial intelligence is building up itself as an essential tool for scientific discovery. In science, AI has gotten instrumental in anticipating the results of experiments or simulations of quantum systems.

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Security Isn’t ‘Front of Mind’ in the IoTedit

CXO Today

But as both Mackey and Shemas noted, most of that collected data will be shifted to a cloud service for analysis, since the devices won’t have that capability. Most of the debate around that is, as Mackey put it, “the slippery slope with data management, because how long are you going to retain that data?

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How AI and Automation Help Ensure Cybersecurity?edit

Analytics Insight

The conventional tools to ensure cybersecurity are not sufficient in today’s world especially in 2020 where using just anti-malware software or login audits will not work at par with rising threats. Organisations need more resources and powerful infrastructure to resist any type of data breach. To enable such strength, they need to embrace AI/ML and automation to fortify their company and company data against malicious intentions.

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C-Level Executives Should Stay Away From These 6 Cybersecurity Mythsedit

Analytics India Mag

In the current digitally advanced era, it is imperative for senior executives to develop a solid foundation of security realities to ensure the organisation is prepared to detect and defend cyber threats at all times. However, certain myths around cybersecurity that c-level executives should consider seriously, which could prevent them from safeguarding the enterprise effectively.

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AI tool to detect changes in patients’ mental healthedit

ET Health World

Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can accurately detect changes in clinical states in voice data of patients with bipolar, schizophrenia and depressive disorders as accurately as attending doctors.

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Preventive Health Care is key to long life: Expertsedit

News D

A host of converging technologies like artificial intelligence, Robotics, Virtual Reality, Digital Biology, sensors, will clash into 3D printing, blockchain, quantum computing and global gigabyte networks in the near future and it will completely change the dynamics of the healthcare industry and how it will be delivered, said Preeti Malhotra, Chairman, Smart Bharat & Chairman, Organising Committee Smart A4M India Conference.

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Investors’ challenge: Sorting the real AI managers from the fakeedit

Live Mint

By Sumit Chakraberty

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become fairly commonplace in our lives—it runs in the background doing everything from curating song lists to unlocking phones. In the world of asset management too, as more wealth managers use similar models to pick stocks, the differentiator could be AI. But we have a way to go before genuine AI rises above the fakes.

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Data localisation may cause cyber attacks, hurt privacy, business competitiveness, says think tankedit

The Financial Express

Data localisation, if implemented, without adequate preparation and accountability measures, may reduce freedom of speech while enhancing risks of censorship, privacy violations, data breaches and cyberattacks.

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79 per cent consumers want to shift from online to in-store automation: Surveyedit

The New Indian Express

At least 79 per cent of consumers in the country are willing to shift their online purchases from retailers that mostly operate through websites or apps to the one that has in-store automation facilities, according to a survey conducted by global consulting firm Capgemini.

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5G’s side streets will be empty without fiber’s interstateedit

Fortune

When it comes to new technology, 5G has been touted as the latest and greatest. It is true that its possibilities are inspiring, from autonomous vehicles to next-generation machine-learning applications, artificial intelligence to Internet of Things (IoT). However, it’s rarely mentioned that 5G’s amazing applications­—and ultimate success—are critically dependent on fiber optic networks.

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The age of artificial humans is hereedit

Live Mint

By Prasid Bannerjee

While research into artificial humans isn’t particularly new any more, the topic recently made news as Samsung’s advanced research division, STAR Labs (Samsung Technology and Advanced Research), announced a project called NEON at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, US, this past week. What Soul Machines calls Digital Heroes, STAR Labs calls NEONs.

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India: Intermediary Liability Under Indian Copyright Law: A New Takeedit

Mondaq

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the use of sensors and other communication technology embedded into physical devices which enables such devices to collect and exchange data, track and controlled over the internet.2 This integration of the physical device into computer based system improves the efficiency and accuracy and reduces human intervention.3

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Complex cyber crime threats to continue in 2020: Check Point 2020 Security Reportedit

Devdis Course

Cybersecurity company Check Point has published its 2020 Security Report highlighting last year’s trends of cyber attacks and how industries across the globe could thwart them. According to the report, cryptominers dominated the malware landscape across industries last year.

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Artificial Intelligence To Spot Low Glucose Level Without Fringerprick Testedit

Analytics India Mag

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based technique that can detect low-sugar levels from raw ECG signals via wearable sensors without any fingerprick test. Current methods to measure glucose requires needles and repeated fingerpicks over the day. Fingerpicks can often be painful, deterring patient compliance.

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Artificial intelligence for the win: New AI tool can predict gestational diabetes risk before pregnancyedit

The Economic Times

Among these women, glucose tolerance testing had established that 4 per cent of them had gestational diabetes. The researchers used a machine learning (ML) method, a form of artificial intelligence (AI), to health records on some 4,50,000 pregnancies in women who gave birth between 2010 and 2017.

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Are Disruptive Technologies A Good Strategy? Or Is It Just A Solution?edit

Express Computer

By Gairika Mishra

With the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over the global business, days ahead might be quite a tech enabled. As per a report by PwC, AI’s potential contribution to the global economy could reach $15.7 trillion by 2030.

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Technology Trends: The evolution of machine learning and artificial intelligence in 2020edit

DQ India

While technology trends in the past year revolved around making machine learning and artificial intelligence accessible for everyone, this year will be about how these technologies will evolve to benefit businesses. With the beginning of 2020, Ramesh SivaSubramanian, Head of Ramco Innovation Lab, Singapore has made technology predictions. The following is a gist on each key technology trend:

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Tech advancements in agriculture offer new careersedit

Deccan Herald

With the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) permeating in our lives more than ever before, one can witness a paradigm shift in how agriculture is perceived today. According to experts, the future of agriculture will be dominated with the use of technology in all the aspects, from production to processing and logistics.

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Security Response To Cyber Threats Not Quick Enoughedit

CXO Today

The 10th iteration of the report, released in October and available for free — licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike — offers data gathered from 122 organisations in verticals including financial, independent software vendors (ISV), tech, healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), insurance, cloud, and retail.

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India needs to move aggressively in areas of cybersecurity, cyber hygiene: IT Secretaryedit

The Economic Times

As connected systems and increasing use of smartphones raise risk of vulnerabilities, India with its proven prowess in software and services should now move aggressively in the area of cybersecurity, a senior IT Ministry official said on Wednesday. “We have an estimated USD 1.9 billion (about Rs 13,500 crore) in cybersecurity service business, and USD 450 million (about Rs 3,200 crore) of cybersecurity products business from India.

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From ROI To RAI (Revenue From Artificial Intelligence)edit

Forbes

Achieving the maximum ROI from AI projects requires a shift in organizational mindset. By seeing AI as a business driver rather than overhead, enterprises have the opportunity to view AI as a valuable asset that helps business leaders make more informed decisions and deliver new revenue from AI to the bottom line.

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2020 Will Be A Tipping Point For IoT Across Industriesedit

BW CIO World

Internet of Things (IoT) has permeated all walks of the digital life from smart homes and factories to wearables and smart supply chains. Research reports from NASSCOM predict that the global market size of IoT is expected to touch USD 3 trillion by 2020. What the estimates underscore is the huge potential of IoT to cause meaningful disruptions in the Age of Digital Transformation as a multitude of devices to get connected to each other.

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10 trends driving enterprise IT transformation in 2020edit

Express Computer

In 2020, organizations will focus on how well they can architect their multi-cloud environment to deliver fast, flexible and agile computing potential, as well as driving cost benefits – something that has been termed “point of need clouds”. It’s about moving from a through-the-network data flow to a straight-there flow (eg 5G to cloud to 5G) to enable edge applications such as artificial intelligence, video or IoT.

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Why Artificial Intelligence is Crucial for Businesses in Indiaedit

Silicon India

According to a study by Accenture, nearly 80 percent of the topnotch executives in India believe that if AI is not deployed Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the organizations, there are chances of going out of business by 2025. Along with this, the research also found that 79 percent of the C-level executives in India believe that without scaling AI they wont achieve the business strategy.

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Organisations likely to use AI extensively to deal with cyberattacks: Studyedit

Express Computer

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will be powering the cyber war rooms in organisations to help them protect from increasing cyberattacks, as well as detect, predict and respond to the same, a PwC India and Data Security Council of India (DSCI) study said.

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IoT 101: Your Essential Guide to the Internet of Thingsedit

Business Insider

You’ve likely heard the phrase Internet of Things, or IoT, at some point if you have been following any tech news in the last several years. But at the same time, you might be scratching your head figuring out what it is or what it means past a flashy buzzword.

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How to Ease FMCG Asset Management Challenges in Retailedit

Indian Retailer

Installing an IoT product may require opening the asset, which may result in violating the warranty of the asset received from OEM. Retailer non-cooperation Installation of any monitoring mechanism at Retailer will require field engineer to spend time inside Retailer outlet. Based on busy hour of the day, Retailer may not want fiend engineers to operate inside Retail outlet.

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How merging AI with IoT can usher in Industrial Revolution 4.0edit

ELETS Online

IoT can optimise not only mass productions but also help accomplish mundane tasks. No matter how significant or insignificant the job may be, IoT will allow us to be more efficient in what we do. Moreover, the quality and scope of data in IoT create an opportunity for a much more contextualised and responsive interaction with devices that can create a potential for change.

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How AI and IoT devices will revolutionize supply chain logistics and managementedit

Business Insider

The combination of mobile computing, analytics, and cloud services, all of which are fueled by the Internet of Things (IoT), is changing how delivery and fulfillment companies are conducting their operations.

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From the AI arms race to adversarial AIedit

Tech Radar

Whether its trying to circumvent antivirus software, or trying to install malware or ransomware on a users machine, to abusing hacked devices to create a botnet or taking down websites and important server infrastructures, getting ahead of the bad guys is the priority for security providers. AI has increased the sophistication of attacks, making it increasingly unpredictable and difficult to mitigate against.

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Bluetooth IoT Market Set to Nearly Quadruple by 2024 as Smart Home Exceeds 800 Million Device Shipmentsedit

IT News Online

Beyond the smart home, opportunities for Bluetooth within the IoT will include beacons and personal trackers, healthcare devices, commercial building automation and lighting, as well as several different types of wearable devices, including smartwatches and fitness trackers.

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Automation, AI offer rich promisesedit

The Tribune

Inclusive innovation at scale rather than scaling IT services today is the new moolah and core of IT services and in order to accelerate the technological growth, India needs to attract more foreign investment, offer tailored upskilling programmes, retain homegrown talent, as well as create a favourable regulatory environment.

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AI to become central to almost every business by 2025 claims International Data Corporationedit

News Hour

IDC report also adds that artificial intelligence will also help the companies in enhancing their capabilities by improving operations and optimising processes by automation. It said that at least half of the total enterprises would take help of automation and insights of AI-driven operations to retain a more skilled workforce.

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AI IN BANKING: Artificial intelligence could be a near $450 billion opportunity for banks here are the strategies the winners are usingedit

Business Insider

The aggregate potential cost savings for banks from AI applications is estimated at $447 billion by 2023, with the front and middle office accounting for $416 billion of that total, per Autonomous Next research seen by Business Insider Intelligence.

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The cybersecurity arms raceedit

Techradar

While theres still a thirst for enormous flows of data, it should be recognised that for cybersecurity at least, even tiny amounts can be extremely impactful, if the right tools are used. Very few pieces of information from anonymous datasets are needed to identify individuals and construct vivid profiles or a pattern of life of them from open sourced and even social media data.

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Stiff preconditions make it a trial by fire for 5Gedit

Live Mint

5G is the next generation of wireless technology and will boost data speeds and propel the Internet of Things, with the potential to bring radical changes in agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare and education.

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Startups engaging consumers via users interactive appedit

The Asian Age

The time people spend on their mobile devices is continuing to grow every year. As our devices become more urbane, the number of activities we can do on mobile is always growing at a greater frequency, Modern technologies, be it AI, machine learning, 5G, Internet of Things, or blockchain, are transforming our future.

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Malware detections targeting Indian enterprises surge by 48%edit

Express Computer

Security solutions provider, Seqrite has highlighted the growing cyber threat to Indian enterprise ecosystem with the Seqrite Annual Threat Report 2020. The report is based on insights analysed by Quick Heal Security Labs, a leading source of threat research, threat intelligence and cybersecurity, and is based on the telemetry threat data sourced from enterprise endpoints and networks during 2019.

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Companies likely to extensively use AI to deal with cyberattacks, says studyedit

The Financial Express

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will be powering the ‘cyber war rooms’ in organisations to help them protect from increasing cyberattacks, as well as detect, predict and respond to the same, a PwC India and Data Security Council of India (DSCI) study said.

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Artificial Intelligence in Defence and Security Sectoredit

Defence Aviation Post

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) was coined by John McCarthy in 1956. AI is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making, and translation between languages.

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AI not limited to pilot projects, now helps companies improve efficiencyedit

Live Mint

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just confined to pilot projects, with AI and related technologies now actively being leveraged to enhance various key processes in companies across the world, according to a new study.

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AI can detect lowglucose levels via ECG without fingerpick testedit

The Economic Times

A new technique developed by researchers at the University of Warwick uses the latest findings of Artificial Intelligence to detect hypoglycaemic events from raw ECG signals, via wearable sensors.

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How Cloud Computing is Driving the Industrial Revolution 4.0edit

The Banking Finance

Industry reports around the world believe that Cloud technology is a critical enabler of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. As the new Industry Revolution starts the ignition, cloud computing is effectively supporting the developments on the Internet of Things (IoT), automation and robotics.

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Will health fly high on AI?edit

The New Indian Express

Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to uplift our ability to profile, predict, promote and protect human health in many exciting ways. But eagerness in the health system to ardently embrace AI should not blind us to potential pitfalls. Lest we lament, as Othello did about Desdemona, that we “loved too well but not wisely”.

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Leveraging Automated Cloud Infrastructure for enabling Smart Citiesedit

BW Smart Cities

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) will play a major role in the treatment and assessment of business KPIs, which would set the pace for IT operations to undergo a further transformation. Continued integration of deep learning, AI, and ML in business operations will enable converged, isolated, or streamlined data for making more informed decisions.

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At 146 million, malware detections targeting Indian enterprises surge by 48%edit

CXO Today

Seqrite portfolio of solutions includes Endpoint Security, Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM), Unified Threat Management (UTM), Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and data protection technologies like Encryption and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). In addition, Seqrite Services provides comprehensive cybersecurity consulting services to Corporates, PSUs, Government and Law Enforcement Agencies

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AI-machine learning innovation: Virtual Humans to foldable screens, unlocking big gains for mankindedit

The Financial Express

In 2014, artificial intelligence (AI) first passed the Turing test—designed by English mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing in 1950, to check if a machine is capable of thinking like a human. Ever since, many pieces of AI tech have successfully passed the test.

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The dangers of IoT and AIedit

Tech Radar

The risks of cybersecurity are more complex than ever. Due to the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), by 2020 every person will generate 1.7 megabytes of information per second. As new technologies evolve, cyber criminals adapt and discover new hacking methods to apprehend sensitive data.

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Why We Must Unshackle AI From the Boundaries of Human Knowledgeedit

The Wire

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made astonishing progress in the last decade. AI can now drive cars, diagnose diseases from medical images, recommend movies, even whom you should date, make investment decisions, and create art that people have sold at auction.

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Malware detections surge by 48% in 2019edit

The Economic Times

Indian enterprises and government departments are facing an unprecedented risk within the cyberspace today. Their digital transformation is leaving them vulnerable to sophisticated threats and attack campaigns conducted by organised cyber crime cells and hostile nation states with a view of disrupting the larger socioeconomic activity and stealing critical, important, and sensitive information.

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Major telecom mines user data secretlyedit

Deccan Chronicle

For the past few years, cybersecurity activists in the country have been uncomfortable with the lack of discussion about data mining and monetisation by large tech firms. Post 2016, crores have started using the internet for the first time. These citizens, activists say, do not understand the value of their private data. And companies are using this ignorance to their advantage.

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Cutting edge technologies to aid Indias construction spaceedit

Hindustan Times

Even as India is witnessing rapid urbanization, the construction space is now looking at cutting edge technology solutions such as robotics, cloud, and artificial intelligence among others. Already, a number of start-ups and legacy companies have entered the space to leverage the imminent growth.

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AI IN BANKING: Artificial intelligence could be a near $450 billion opportunity for banks here are the strategies the winners are usingedit

Business Insider

The aggregate potential cost savings for banks from AI applications is estimated at $447 billion by 2023, with the front and middle office accounting for $416 billion of that total, per Autonomous Next research seen by Business Insider Intelligence.

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A little finetuning towards the basicsedit

The Times of India

Now we could able to see that there has been technological shifting not limiting to analog to digital (Digital Video Broadcasting, FM Radio) but the introduction of IoTs (Internet of Things) aka the devices connected and well synchronized to the internet. By playing vital roles, these devices have become parts and partial of our lives.

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What is 5G Technology, How Does It Work & What Challenges Does It Faceedit

The Quint

This tech is also going to be the foundation for virtual reality, autonomous driving and the internet of things. This will not only make your smartphone experience better but will also open up avenues for advancements in other fields like medical, infrastructure and even manufacturing.

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Intelligent Automation is Becoming an Intelligent Necessityedit

Analytics Insight

The Information Age drives huge and small organizations to go digital. However, it is an amazingly challenging task to change conventional organizations into digital practices consistently. What can be the route forward Today, we are discussing intelligent automation (IA), the idea that may turn into the fundamental driving force behind digital transformation processes.

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India: The Law And The Internet Of Thingsedit

Mondaq

The Internet of Things or the IOT is all around us, whether we realize it or not. Common devices that we see everyone wearing such as fitness bands, to smart grids that provide sustainable energy solutions are all part of the IOT ecosystem.

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Eight technology trends that are set to soar in 2020edit

Express Computer

As India speeds up its mission to transform into a truly digital economy with the increasing inclusion of AI, Machine Learning (ML), data analytics, cloud and Internet of Things (IoT), cyberspace will become a complex domain. Related to this are the issues of cybersecurity and data privacy, which remain the top cloud concerns of IT decision makers.

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Cyber threats that use social engineeringedit

Tech Radar

From a technical perspective, automated tools that capture phishing attempts, such as blocking known spoofed email addresses and recognising indicators of compromise, reduce the quantity of phishing mails that reach employee inboxes. However, some will always make it through, and automated tools cannot detect the attackers who are invited in by victims of remote online social engineering scams.

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Can AI and Robots Revolutionize Taxationedit

Silicon India

The Indian government has been embracing technology at a rapid pace across various sectors such as healthcare, defence, transportation and more. Lately, technology has invaded the government services as well, and taxation is one such service.

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A day in the life of a cybersecurity analyst: Identifying threats, finding solutions & keeping data safeedit

The Economic Times

In an exclusive interview to ET Panache, Claire Hatcher shares what it is like to be a cybersecurity analyst. An analyst at Kaspersky typically begins the day by looking at the data coming in from our servers in realtime. The next step is to figure out the threat patterns and techniques adopted by the bad guys.

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We don’t know what we dont knowedit

Telangana Today

Will artificial intelligence one day surpass human thinking The rapid progress of AI, coupled with our standard fear of machines, has raised concerns that its abilities will one day start to grow uncontrollably, eventually leading it to take over the world and wipe out humanity if it decides we are an obstacle to its goals. This moment is usually referred to as the AI singularity.

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Understanding Various Backgrounds of Cyber Threat Rise in 2020edit

Analytics Insight

The threats across cyber network are like moving target, as soon as you reach near such vectors, a new emergence comes into being. However, the ever-evolving nature of technology is considered as an anecdote for these situations. As 2019 was a hot mess for cybersecurity business, 2020 is more likely to promise good at its various touch points.

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The future of the IoT: from edge computing to 5Gedit

Tech Radar

The number of devices connected to the Internet is set to explode next year. Among the various figures predicting its growth, Gartner has stated the enterprise and automotive Internet of Things (IoT) market alone is expected to increase to 5.8bn endpoints in 2020.

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Satellites will drive IOT connectionsedit

Business Standard

Especially when the Internet of Things (IOT) is connecting billions of devices and “sensorising” almost everything. From pipelines to assembly lines to logistics and consumer electronics. As sensors actively transmit data across systems, the biggest need of the hour is speed, quality and affordability of connectivity.

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Need For A General Agreement On Ethics In Artificial Intelligenceedit

Business World

As more and more data is captured and as data processing becomes more ubiquitous, the implications of AI are not just to jobs and workers, but to all of society and our very existence. Are we sure we are not creating a Frankenstein like entity that will imperil its own creator? Like HAL 9000 in Arthur C Clarke’s 2001 a Space Odyssey, a potential rogue that attempted to destroy its creators?

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India may have 800 million internet users by 2023 if it can get this factor rightedit

The Financial Express

As Internet of Things (IoT) devices seep into a consumers life, an overwhelming amount of data is being generated. There is an unpredictable stream of IoT data which is being utilised to study consumer trends and create digital content that appeals to the users. The future of Indias internet network is changing; there will be almost 750800 million users connected to internet in India by 2023!

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How Machine Learning is reducing loan defaults and easing debt recoveryedit

Money Control

Enter Automation. Specifically, Machine Learning (ML), a component of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which has eased the process of lending money and debt recovery. Digital lenders are using ML to introduce credit models that deal with every aspect of lending, such as creating credit history or score, risk management, eligibility for loan and the loan amount, personalised interest rates, debt collection and conflict resolution.

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How Cloud Computing is Driving Digital Disruptionedit

CXO Today

The influx of technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, IoT and ML has rendered traditional businesses redundant. Digital transformation is the new paradigm, that helps them stay ahead of the competition. Cloud fuels innovation by giving a compatible set of APIs for developers.

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Here are the top 5 AI trends for 2020edit

Geospatial World

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the peculiar ability to simultaneously amaze, enthrall and intimidate. The possibilities of AI are innumerable and beyond the scope of our imagination. AI would be the bedrock of the era of connected mobility, automation and Industry 4.0, powering everything from analytics, decision making, agriculture, logistics, to construction, aerospace and robotics.

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Emotional AI: Encourage or Discourage?edit

Analytics Insight

There’s a little logical basis to emotion recognition technology, so it ought to be prohibited from use in decisions that influence individuals’ lives, says research organization AI Now in its annual report. The AI Now Institute says the field is “based on markedly shaky foundations”.

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Cyber security: Fearful of phishing attack on your digital accounts Here’s how to steer clearedit

The Financial Express

Schools can reduce susceptibility by making their community more aware of phishing threats and techniques. While some may characterise students as clickhappy, many administrators and faculty also lack basic awareness and skills, such as looking at a browser toolbar to check the domain name.

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Automotive Industry Will Become Biggest Market for 5G IoT in 2023edit

CXO Today

Outdoor surveillance cameras will be the largest market for 5G Internet of Things (IoT) solutions worldwide over the next three years, according to Gartner, Inc. These cameras will represent 70% of the 5G IoT endpoint installed base in 2020, before contracting to 32% by the end of 2023.

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Artificial Intelligence software market to touch $126 billion by 2025: Tracticaedit

Tech Observer

According to a new report from Tractica, the top industry sectors where AI is likely to bring major transformation remain those in which there is a clear business case for incorporating AI, rather than pieinthesky use cases that may not generate return on investment for many years.

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AI Has Now Reached The Battlefield With Killer Robots, Automated Weapons & UAVsedit

Analytics India Mag

With technology evolving at a fast pace, we have come a long way from the basic computers to presently using artificial intelligence in modern human warfare. In the current scenario of the world, it wouldnt be wrong to say that the country with the best technology intelligence and machines will be the strongest during the war.

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Why Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Can be the Next Big Thingedit

Silicon India

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the most discussed topics in IT and business circles now. It is considered the fastest growing enterprise software category in 2019, according to Gartner. Besides, RPA experts claim that organizations must build a broader automation strategy to understand the power of process automation.

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What Do Business Leaders Need To Know About AIedit

CXO Today

By Sohini Bagchi

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is something that’s growing bigger by the minute. The extremely fastpaced technology developments have presented us with previously unimaginable solutions. But the reaction around these developments is mixed.

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Peeking into the future: What artificial intelligence can and cant doedit

CNBC TV18

Many feel that by 2025, AI might be able to come up with a top 100 Billboard song, write a hit TV series or create a piece of art that is worth over $100,000. Don’t fight this technological wave; instead, go along with it and the ride might just become super interesting.

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Is Your Organisation Ready to Tackle Cybersecurity in 2020edit

CIOL

Today, 68 percent of business leaders feel that their cybersecurity risks are increasing, as per an Accenture report. Their fears are not unfounded. In the last decade, we’ve witnessed the emergence of cybersecurity as one of the top concerns for organizations of all sizes. A University of Maryland study found that computers were attacked every 39 seconds on average, or about 2,244 times a day.

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Industry 4.0 is a buzzword that need not mystify usedit

MINT

Industry 4.0 is the buzzword of choice in the world of manufacturing technology these days. It includes a veritable alphabet soup of technologies. Apart from internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), there is advanced analytics (AA), machine learning (ML), big data, cloud, R, blockchain and Uberization.

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How the Internet of Things will transform consumerism, enterprises, and governments over the next five yearsedit

Business Insider

The Internet of Things is fueling the data based economy and bridging the divide between physical and digital worlds. Consumers, companies, and governments will install more than 40 billion IoT devices worldwide through 2023.

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How the Growth of Robotics Market in India Affect the Economyedit

Silicon India

Being an interdisciplinary branch of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics engages different fields of electrical and mechanical engineering and computer science. Robots mean multifunctional, automatic and reprogrammable industrial machines that are embedded with a variety of hightech devices like visual, tactile and audio sensors.

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How retailers modernize warehouses to keep up with online demandedit

The Economic Times

That’s where mobility solutions, track and trace systems and even Internet of Things (IoT) powered automation comes in. Together, such technologies enable retailers to sense what is happening and what is stored within the warehouse and store in real time. However, records and reports alone don’t deliver results. They inform actions which deliver results.

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AI matches human brain cancer diagnosis: studyedit

The Economic Times

An AI computer model can diagnose and identify 10 of the most common types of brain cancer with the same accuracy as human doctors, researchers said Monday. More than 15 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year, and 80 percent of those will undergo surgery.

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AI Can Help India Become A $5 Trillion Economy, Says Piyush Goyaledit

Analytics India Mag

Commerce and Industry and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal this week inaugurated the National Stock Exchange (NSE) Knowledge Hub in New Delhi, an artificial intelligence powered learning ecosystem that will assist the banking, financial services and insurance sector.

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A.I. Predictions: Regulations, Cashierless Stores, and More Artificial Intelligence Predictions for 2020edit

Fortune

If 2019 was any barometer, this year will be a busy one in the artificial intelligence world. The challenge will be to turn the advancements into something that businesses can use. Most companies are still struggling to harness A.I. technologies like neural networks, or software that learns from data, according to surveys that Fortune covered last year.

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Top cyber security trends that will shape 2020edit

The Economic Times

What are the big technology trends and what risks will they pose Will attackers be all about new technologies like AI and biometrics or will the focus be more on infiltrating conventional systems in new and innovative ways What will the attack vectors be Will traditional attack methods continue to reign supreme or will new approaches emerge

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Spending on robotics and drones to reach $128.7 bn: IDCedit

Infotech Lead

Robotics spending will be $112.4 billion in 2020. Spending on drones will total $16.3 billion in 2020. Spending on drones will grow at 33.3 percent CAGR. Spending on robotics systems will be at 17.8 percent CAGR.

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Intelligent automation to emerge as key driver for optimising business operationsedit

CRN

As the operations of enterprises become increasingly mobile and automated, there is a need to develop a common, central point of orchestration of disparate sensors, devices and automation platforms (the instrumentation layer) to coordinate the combined value.

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Intelligence of Things, AI and 5G to define the technology in next decadeedit

The Economic Times

Technology trends in the coming decade will be dictated not by Internet of Things (IoT) but by Intelligence of Things, which means that artificial intelligence will underscore every facet of commerce and culture.

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Health Insurance: More wellness products, use digital solutions in year 2020edit

The Financial Express

Health Insurance, wellness product, digital solution, healthcare, Medical diagnostics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things New business models of delivering care are evolving via the virtualisation of processes and business models, with consumer centric mobility paradigms gaining ground.

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RBI issues Cyber Security Controls Guidelines for Third party ATM Switch Application Service Providersedit

Tax Scan

The RBI observed that a number of RBI Regulated Entities (RREs) manage their ATM Switch ecosystem through shared services of third party ATM Switch Application Service Providers (ASPs). Since these service providers also have exposure to the payment system landscape, it is felt that some cybersecurity controls are required to be put in place by them.

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Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solving business needsedit

Dq India

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) combines digital technologies such as cloud computing, IoT and machine learning (ML) and to drive value for the business. Businesses today need to stay competitive in the global market by reducing cost of operations and cost of servicing customer.

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How AI and IoT will continue to transform business landscapes in 2020edit

ET Telecom

In the healthcare segment as well, IoT will drive significant transformation. Hospital drug and waste management, robotic surgery, real time health monitoring and diagnostics via IoT will stand to witness increased adoption.

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Despite Chaotic Year, Automation, AI Offer Benefits To Indian It Industryedit

Analytics India Mag

The year 2019 witnessed a lot of dramatic events in India IT industry, be it hostile takeover at Mindtree, change of guard at Wipro, and whistle-blower allegations against Infosys top leadership. Despite all the chaos, it has been expected that automation and AI will continue to harness multi-million prospects for the industry.

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World at the cusp of new Technology Revolution…edit

The Hans India

And it is only apt to say that it is indeed going to be technology that will be dictating the world order in the coming years. As we begin this decade with a series of articles on what to look forward to in the coming decade, the 2020s as we call them; Ramaharitha Pusarla looks at aspects like artificial intelligence, 3D imaging and virtual reality that are going to play a major role in the 2020s. This computer-generated virtual world had added a new dimension to the entertainment industry. Virtual Reality (VR) which has been a part of infotainment and high-end videogames is now being put to business use as well.

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What is artificial intelligences future in healthcareedit

The Financial Express

Robotled surgeries are not where it stops. In the times to come, artificial intelligence and machine learning will be deployed to create intelligent, accurate, and more efficient technologiesartificial intelligence, artificial intelligence in healthcare, Ohio, Robot surgeries, machine learning, Google, ML tools

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Top five projections in Artificial Intelligence for 2020edit

The Times of India

Machine Generated Content with Artificial Intelligence takes over Crowd Intelligence. We have seen the prototypes and demonstrations of content generating Robots in the form of user reviews, news stories, Celebrity images, Funny Videos, Music Compositions, Short stories and Artistic paintings. This is going to become sophisticated with the advancement in selfSupervised learning led by NVIDIA, Google and Microsoft; which are pushing the boundaries to new frontiers.

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Technology of the future: The big bets on how the world will be in the 2020sedit

Times Now News

IoT, or Internet of Things refers to digital systems or physical machines capable of communicating with each other over networks. With the emergence of Big Data analytics, IoT architecture is expected to have a huge impact on our degree of dependence on technology. One of the spaces that experts predict IoT to have a large influence on is that of smart homes. With the emergence of smart appliances and smart grids, machines will be able to better understand households consumption and behavioural patterns, allowing such systems to preempt needs and wants.

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Robotic Process Automation Enhances Manufacturing Industryedit

Analytics Insight

Robotic Process Automation has gone from being estimated as fresh out of the box new innovation to an indispensable one in the present market and supporting most of the scenarios and procedures in different industries including manufacturing. Compactly, RPA altogether conveys more prominent optimization advantages to the manufacturers to upgrade their competitive advantages, accelerate work, and diminish costs.

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5 key technology trends to shape digital payments landscape in 2020edit

Tech Observer

Technology has always been a keystone to the evolution of the banking and financial services sector, as it continuously revolutionised the way the financial services is conceptualized, regulated, disseminated, and consumed. However, the last few years witnessed technology emerging from the backroom and taking centerstage alongside financial services.

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How data analytics can make a difference in the banking sectoredit

Mangalorean

However, with the realms of artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data technologies, the banks these days are hiring data management experts to handle their data, manage it efficiently and also analyses it further to draw insights that help in the business growth.

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Artificial Intelligence cant set goals, wont replace humans: NRNedit

The Times of India

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not make humans obsolete as it cannot set goals like humans do, NR Narayana Murthy, chairman emeritus and cofounder of Infosys, said on Friday. Murthy was answering a question during the third edition of The Future of Learning conference (FoL) held at the Indian Institute of ManagementBangalore

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AI 101: How learning computers are becoming smarteredit

Business Insider

Artificial intelligence social network Many companies use the term artificial intelligence, or AI, as a way to generate excitement for their products and to present themselves as on the cutting edge of tech development.

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Top Tech to Enable Digital Transformation in the 2020sedit

CXO Today

As the quantity of data we deal with increases with passing years, usage and development of Edge Computing is crucial. It can process time-sensitive data and is a market that’s expected to touch $ 7 billion by 2022. And the growth of edge computing is dependent on the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The more advanced and seamless IoT is designed to be, adapting new technologies is made easier.

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Seqrite announces 2020 cybersecurity threat predictions, here’s what to watch out foredit

Deccan Chronicle

2019 was an inflexion point for cybersecurity in India. Rapid digitisation left the country’s business ecosystem vulnerable to new-age threats and attacks, growing both in complexity and scale. But how will the threat landscape pan out in 2020? Seqrite, a provider of IT security and data protection solutions to corporates, SMEs, and governments, has announced its threat predictions that will shape the future of enterprise security in the coming year.

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Breast cancer detection gets a boost from Google and artificial intelligenceedit

The Print

Google Health programmers have published a new study that shows artificial intelligence and machine learning can diagnose breast cancer with greater accuracy than human radiologists. To train their systems, Google programmers used a database of mammogram images called OPTIMAM. The study was able to show a reduction in false positives and false negatives, and identify early incidences of breast cancer. More on Popular Mechanics

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AI In Banking: Artificial intelligence could be a near $450 billion opportunity for banks here are the strategies the winners are usingedit

Business Insider

Most banks (80%) are highly aware of the potential benefits presented by AI, per an OpenText survey of financial services professionals. In fact, many banks are planning to deploy solutions enabled by AI: 75% of respondents at banks with over $100 billion in assets say they’re currently implementing AI strategies, compared with 46% at banks with less than $100 billion in assets, per a UBS Evidence Lab report seen by Business Insider Intelligence. Certain AI use cases have already gained prominence across banks’ operations, with chatbots in the front office and anti-payments fraud in the middle office the most mature.

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With many nations already on 5G, industry divided over trialsedit

The Economic Times

By Devina Sengupta

“Yes, it may have helped if trials were allowed a year ago, but it is not too late,” said Rajan Mathews, director general of the Cellular Operators Association of India. “India-specific trials are needed and standards, even globally, are getting finalised. Densification, IoT (Internet of Things), network splitting and other feature functionalities are still getting developed.”

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Smartphones face high hacking risk from malware and banking Trojans in 2020: Reportedit

The News Minute

“Threat actors are expected to deploy advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI)-led attacks to boost the speed and impact of their campaigns. IoT will throw new challenges to data security,” said the report titled ‘Cyber Trends in 2019 and Predictions for 2020’. “Cyber attacks are on the rise and will continue to rise.

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Innovative technology behind shippingedit

Tech Radar

Increased use of disruptive technologies is set to help businesses make significant improvements to the post-purchase experience. When you buy a product from an online retailer, you take the product’s journey for granted. What you might not know is the innovative sending technology behind the scenes, which is making life easier for retailers and is giving you a better post-purchase experience.

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Industry 4.0 – An opportunity to revivify the IT functionedit

ET CIO

It enables the manufacturers to connect all machines, products and services to a single network, and facilitate Machine-to-Machine communication. The objective is to make the information available to customers, suppliers and other stakeholders over the Internet. And the ultimate goal is to empower the customers to define their product specifications or customisations and improve operational efficiencies.

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Artificial intelligence can spot breast cancer better than doctors: Googleedit

Business Standard

Artificial intelligence can spot breast cancer more accurately than doctors, according to a study by Google Health. The technology’s reading of mammograms reduced both false positives, where healthy patients are mistakenly diagnosed with the disease, and false negatives, where the cancer is missed, the Alphabet unit said in a blog post.

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AI, Data Analytics to Track GST Evaders, Boost Complianceedit

The Economic Times

The government plans to increase the use of artificial intelligence and data analytics to track down tax evaders, and improve compliance with the Goods and Service Tax in order to augment revenue. Top tax officials are scheduled to participate in a brainstorming session to be chaired by revenue secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey next week to firm up this plan.

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Smartphones face high hacking risk in 2020: Reportedit

ET CIO

There was 54 per cent increase in data breaches in 2019 as compared to 2018 and 2020 will see significant rise in the number of mobile-focused malware and banking Trojans, a new report has predicted. With 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) devices arriving on the horizon, data speed will increase but the speed of cyber attacks would also rise, said the report from leading accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton.

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Despite growth in spending, cybersecurity budget dips for small, medium bizedit

Business Standard

Though it may be a complex task which demands a good understanding of business needs towards cyber security, how to address them and how much it can cost,” said Sergey Martsynkyan, head of B2B product marketing at Kaspersky, a cyber security company which came out with the report.

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Cloud, 5G and ‘wetware’ attacks — the 5 biggest cybersecurity threats of 2020edit

Business Insider

Not only do organisation need to implement better methods to protect data but they also need cybersecurity measures to detect data thefts in a timely manner.

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Artificial Intelligence to the Internet of Things: Technologies that defined the way we lived in 2019edit

The Financial Express

Internet of Things (IoT) Gartner forecasts that there will be 20 billion Internet-connected things by 2020. While the list of IoT gadgets for consumers may seem unending, ranging from smart and connected gadgets as well as appliances such as smart refrigerators, air-conditioners, watches, fire alarms, door locks, bicycles, medical sensors, fitness trackers, security systems, etc., there were some that particularly caught our attention this year.

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AI can predict the risk of heart attackedit

The Economic Times ET Panache

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be better at predicting heart attacks and cardiac deaths than the standard clinical tests used by cardiologists. A recent study, published in the journal Cardiovascular Research, analysed participants from a randomised research trial, who were middle-aged subjects with cardiovascular risk factors, but no known coronary artery disease

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What the next decade holds for usedit

The Financial Express

But, we are at a cusp in renewable energy technologies. Renewable energy, along with storage technologies reaching gridparity and even out pricing conventional sources of energy, is on the anvil in this decade. Besides, modern technologies, like 5G and Internet of Things (IoT), would truly bring energy underour control.

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Their pride is in being faster and better, not cheaperedit

Live Mint

There are maverick entrepreneurs out to conquer global markets with cutting-edge products riding on artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and robotics. Their innovation showcases Bengaluru as a hub for deep tech rather than cheap tech. IT services put Bengaluru on the global tech map as an outsourcing hub.

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Learn to ‘speak machine’ this yr to keep automatons in checkedit

The Times of India

IoT device ecosystems deployed at scale and with 5G will have massive implications on how we manage our lives, businesses and even our countries and states. It will give artificial intelligence all the data they need to learn from us and about us — and our work and play lives will become infinitely more pleasurable in the process.

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How the Internet of Things will transform consumerism, enterprises, and governments over the next five yearsedit

Business Insider

The Internet of Things is fueling the databased economy and bridging the divide between physical and digital worlds. Consumers, companies, and governments will install more than 40 billion IoT devices worldwide through 2023.

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DoT kickstarts process to roll out 5G, trials likely in January-Marchedit

Live Mint

By Navadha Pandey

5G is the next generation of wireless technology and will boost data speeds and propel the Internet of Things, with the potential to bring radical changes in agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare and education.

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Cybersecurity threats to watch out foredit

Tech Radar

The internet can be a hostile environment. The threat of cyberattack is ever present as new vulnerabilities are released and a commodity of tools are produced to exploit them. Therefore, the pressure on organisations (and their employees) to protect customer data and defend against attacks, is mounting.

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Cyber Security Trends for 2020edit

BW CIO World

CDCs dedicate themselves entirely to manage highquality IT security operations and run a network surveillance every day along with predictive analysis, irrespective of whether there is an unusual event or not. The year 2020 will witness enterprises establishing strong cyber defense mechanism by adapting to latest technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and behavior analytics.

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Automation, AI continue to offer rich promises to Indian IT companiesedit

The Economic Times

Automation and AI continued to log in multi-million dollar prospects for Indian IT companies despite slower overall growth and visa concerns in an eventful year that was marked by high-drama of a hostile takeover at MindtreeNSE 1.23 %, change of guard at WiproNSE 0.53 %, and whistle blower allegations against InfosysNSE 0.44 % top leadership

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A review of 2019 and what the next year has in store for healthcareedit

The Economic Times

This year saw many visible progressions in the healthcare segment. While Ayushman Bharat or Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (ABPMJAY) changed the face of healthcare in the country this year, it is predicted that in the next year, technologies like machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will represent the face of change.

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2010-2019: IoT Creating a Connected Enterpriseedit

CXO Today

The amount of excitement generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) over the decade has been tremendous. In 2009, there were around 900 million connected things in use around the world, according to figures from Statista. By 2020, that number is set to reach 20 billion.

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2020 predictions for the Indian IT Industryedit

Cellit

While ML, predictive analytics and autonomics are moving up the maturity curve, AI-enabled chatbots and virtual assistants are already being used widely. Gartner predicts that 25% of customer service operations will be using virtual customer assistants by 2020.

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Industry News: Future of Mobility

Recent study indicates transition to EVs will be slowedit

Auto Car Professional

A recent analysis by global supplier SEG Automotive based on the IHS Markit data shows the worldwide change toward emobility will be slower than expected. IHS Markit is a London based analysis company. According to SEG, based on that report even on a global scale only a fraction of total cars manufactured are forecast to be pure battery electric by 2025.

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Electric Vehicles Will Be Cheaper Than Combustion Vehicles In Three Years, Says Amitabh Kantedit

Bloomberg Quint

Electric vehicles will become cheaper than combustion vehicles in three years as the price of battery packs of EVs is expected to fall by almost 51 percent per unit, NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer Amitabh Kant said on Thursday.

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EESL partners with BHEL for EV charging networkedit

The Economic Times

Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture under Ministry of Power has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), to set up a network of public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles at various highways across the country, informed the company in a release on Thursday.

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Convert diesel buses to run on CNG & LNG; cut operational costs, Gadkari tells STCsedit

The Times of India

By Dipak K Dash

We will financially support innovations and research in the sector. I will also ask the automobile manufacturers to bring in new technologies, like the electric mobility card used for a bus ride. We can save much both in diesel and tickets, he said.

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Budget 2020: Five key trends having huge impact on Indian automotive industryedit

The Financial Express

Abolish the customs duty of 5% on Lithium ion cells to promote local manufacturing of the batteries in the country. This will further reduce cost of electric vehicles and accelerate its adoption Incentive for lithium ion battery manufacturing for EV applications

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BEST to procure 300 new electric buses and hire women drivers for the servicesedit

Mumbai Live

The department of Brihan Mumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) has decided to hire women drivers for the electric buses it intends to add to its flock in the next six months. On Wednesday, the BEST committee, which manages the governance of the transport and electricity distribution wing of BMC, approved a proposal to procure 300 new electric buses for the city and hire women drivers to run some of these buses as per a Central policy.

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What Does Indian Auto Industry Expect From Budget 2020edit

Business World

Also unlike the conventional automobile sector, financing has been a major concern for EV industry as Nationalised banks are currently not offering any financial help over electric vehicles. I think if the government solves the financing issue, it will aid in meeting the target of E mobility 2030 set by the government.

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Extracting Lithiumedit

Millennium Post

The solution seems simple, move the electricity grid to renewables and replace private gas guzzlers with electric vehicles (EVs). The key to both of these Batteries. This is where things get complicated.

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Budget 2020 expectations: Dedicated fund for EV technology development needed, says Manish Rathi, RailYatriedit

Zee Biz

Rathi said that there is a growing need to invest more towards promoting the manufacturing of electric vehicles with greater than 500 kms run on single charge. Source Reuters. The Modi government should announce a dedicated fund for the development and research of electronic vehicle technology in the upcoming budget, believes Manish Rathi, CEO & cofounder, Intrcity by RailYatri.

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300 ebuses to hit Mumbai roadsedit

The Times of India

BESTs fleet strength will go up by 300 electric buses, being procured for Mumbai under FAME2 (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles) scheme/subsidy of the Central government.

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Lower GST, scrappage policy top the industry’s wish listedit

The Hindu Business Line

“At the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), we have urged the Finance Ministry to consider announcing an incentive-based scrappage policy and also Budget allocation for internal combustion engine (ICE) bus procurement by State transport undertakings.

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Budget 2020 must solve these 4 issues for small businesses, startups in EV space to curb pollutionedit

The Financial Express

By Sandeep Soni

Union Budget 2020 India: With the Union Budget around the corner, it will be interesting to look at how the government can assist the growth of shared mobility and electric vehicles (EVs) in India. So far, initiatives such as the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP)2020 and Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles (FAME) I and II are already in place for domestic emobility industry.

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Connected cars poised to become common phenomenon in India: Deloitte Reportedit

The Economic Times

As per the 2020 Global Automotive Consumer Study by Deloitte, an annual report which comes up with insights on the automotive industry globally, the Indian market is expected to witness enhanced interest and demand for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and connected vehicles going forward.

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Lithium extraction should be sustainableedit

Down To Earth

The solution seems simple move the electricity grid to renewables, and replace private gas guzzlers with electric vehicles (EVs). The key to both of these Batteries. This is where things get complicated.

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Union Budget 2020: Incentivisation tops automobile sectors wishlist after turbulent yearedit

India Tv News

Both the sellers and the buyers in the automobile market are looking from incentives from the government as far as Electric Vehicles are concerned. There is a need for the government to incentivise the buying and selling of such cars if they see EV as the longterm future of the Indian automobile market.

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Driving into the future of car safety: Bringing maximum safety at an affordable cost!edit

The Financial Express

Electric cars and safety Last year, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways emphasised that, by 2022, most of our vehicle safety will be on a par with global standards, and some safety features may even surpass the standards of the US, one of the most (if not the most) advanced auto markets in the world.

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Budget 2020 Expectations: EV manufacturers ask for abolishing customs duty on li-ion cellsedit

The Financial Express

Budget 2020-21: About 4045 percent of the cost of an electric vehicle is attributed to the battery pack and hence the industry expects that the customs duty of 5 percent on lithium-ion cells to be abolished.

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Auto sector for incentive based scrappage schemeedit

SME Times

Allocate budget for procurement of buses by STUs, over the budget allocation for procurement of electric buses under the FAME II scheme, SIAM said in its recommendations. Increase depreciation rate for passenger vehicles and twowheelers to 25 per cent permanently.

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Myths and truths: the owners of electric vehicles confessed about the problems in operationedit

The Times Hub

The popularity of electric vehicles is steadily increasing. Every day there are more motorists moved into an environmentally friendly electric cars with a dirty engine. Because electric vehicles have a number of serious shortcomings, the vast majority of drivers still remains in traditional cars because of the fear of the unknown technology.

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Electric Vehicles Could Get Less Expensive In India Starting 2022edit

Zig Wheels

The Central Government’s planning body, NITI Aayog, has proposed the development of high-output electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing facilities in India. According to a news report, the body is seeking Cabinet approval to set up these units and commence production by 2022. The Finance Ministry has already approved subsidies of Rs 700 crore for the first year.

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Heres all you wanted to know about wireless chargingedit

The Financial Express

Wireless charging can be used everywhere, in smartphones and IoT devices, but more importantly in medical devices. XNikola Tesla had suggested electromagnetic induction charging in the 1890s, and it is a variation of this technology that is used in wireless charging even today.

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Connected cars poised to become common phenomenon in India: Reportedit

The Times of India

Connected cars are set to become a common phenomenon in the Indian market in the near future with rapid adoption of electric vehicles, according to a Deloitte report. The consumers willingness to pay for advanced and connected technologies has improved over the last two years which is evident in the rising sales of cars that are internet connected, despite the slowdown in sale of passenger vehicles, according to the report.

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Draft policy seeks lower taxes for LNG, CNG vehiclesedit

Live Mint

Further, to promote the safe usage of CNG/LNG in the transport sector, state policy thrust may be given by rationalizing road tax for factory fitted CNG/LNG vehicles and making them at par with electric vehicles

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Budget 2020: Will There Be Incentives To Buy Electric Vehiclesedit

The Quint

There is a range of electric vehicles being launched and more will be coming this year. But will the Union Budget 2020 have more incentives for buyers of electric vehicles That’s a question many in the auto industry are asking and putting on the wishlist which they hope Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will fulfill.

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Watch: Everything you need to know about electric vehiclesedit

CNBC TV18

Electric vehicles are slowly but surely making inroads into the transportation industry, but is this enough to actually change the way we travel Here in Singapore, there were more than 930,000 vehicles on the road in 2018. Only 707 of them were electric. That doesn’t sound like much, but just 5 years before that, there were only seven electric vehicles

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Financing may not come easy for purchase of highpriced EV’sedit

The Economic Times

Inadequate charging infrastructure, reliance on battery imports, range anxiety and high prices are not the only problems in India’s electric vehicles (EV) industry. Financing these cars isn’t too easy either.

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E-bus plan hits roadblock againedit

The Hindu

The ambitious project to introduce electric buses in Bengaluru has run into yet another hurdle. This delay comes in the wake of a series of back and forth over the last few months. Under the FAME India-II scheme, the State will get 400 e-buses, of which 300 will be leased by the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation.

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India’s electric vehicle ambitions could stumble on lack of Lithiumedit

Live Mint

By Swansy Afonso

India’s ambition of becoming a global hub for making electric vehicles faces one major hurdle: its lack of access to lithium. Home to some of the most polluted cities on the planet, the South Asian nation is pivoting toward new energy vehicles to clean up its toxic air. But with meager resources of lithium, the mineral essential to make batteries for electric vehicles, it is having to scour for resources overseas.

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Govt to Invite Bids for Reallocation of Subsidy for 2,000 E-buses in Febedit

The Economic Times

By Sarita Singh

The Centre will invite proposals from state transport departments for reallocation of central subsidy for 2,000 electric buses under its Fame II scheme to promote electric mobility, but will not allow participation of cities that defaulted in the first round, people aware of the development said.

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Financing May Not Come Easy for Purchase of High-Priced EVsedit

The Economic Times

By Lijee Philip

Gupta added that banks have to play a vital role in opening up financing, which will see volumes expand in the electric vehicle segment. Shailesh Chandra, head of electrical mobility of Tata Motors, said the situation is easing out as more and more products with a value proposition are being launched. “I think the challenge for banks is the new technology and low resale value,” said Chandra.

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Consumers prefer 10 lakh price tag for electric vehicles, 300km driving rangeedit

Live Mint

By Amit Panday

A driving range of 300km on a single charge, and a price tag of 10 lakh, among other factors, could tempt Indians to go for electric vehicles, a consumer survey said. At this sweet spot of price and range, six out of 10 respondents were willing to switch to EVs if manufacturers were ready to buy back the vehicles at about 40% of the purchase price after four years of usage, the survey by advisory firm Deloitte said.

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Cleaner, Faster, Safer: The Future of Cars Looks Goodedit

Hindustan Times

A battery-swapping system would not only potentially save time for drivers — one of the biggest issues consumers have with EVs — it could also lower the upfront prices of buying electric vehicles. That’s because consumers would be able to purchase the car and the batteries separately, or possibly just lease the batteries.

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Bengaluru: BMTC to procure only electric vehicles from 2022edit

The Times of India

By Christin Mathew Philip

BMTC is procuring 300 EVs under FAME II this year and 500 more for the next financial year. 90 EV feeder buses tender is out under the smart city fund. We are setting up four charging stations at our bus depots.

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Indias Electric Car Ambitions Could Stumble on Lack of Lithiumedit

Bloomberg Quint

India’s ambition of becoming a global hub for making electric vehicles faces one major hurdle: its lack of access to lithium. Home to some of the most polluted cities on the planet, the South Asian nation is pivoting toward new-energy vehicles to clean up its toxic air. But with meager resources of lithium, the mineral essential to make batteries for electric vehicles

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e-scooters for 4 metro stationsedit

Trinity Mirror

Chennai Metro Rail has added another form of feeder service to provide last mile connectivity for its passengers. Electric scooters will be available from four metro station sAlandur, Nandanam, Guindy, and Little Mount for starters. Coming months, 6000 more scooters are going to be added covering the remaining metro stations.

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Budget 2020: EV startups pin hopes on better infrastructure, proper policies, increased awarenessedit

The Financial Express

Electrification might help India to achieve its 30 per cent EV penetration target by 2030 even as the country reels under enormous pollution level and volatile crude oil prices. This years budget would hint the industry how the plan goes towards making Indian cities less polluted as stakeholders expect key steps to be taken by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

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53% Indians ready to pay upto Rs 1 lac more for EV: Reportedit

The Economic Times

According to one of the findings of Deloittes 2020 Global Automotive Consumer Study, consumers across geographies continue to move away from ICE vehicles. Globally, this preference for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) is led by Japan at 47 per cent, followed by India.

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Supreme Court seeks government’s reply on conversion of public transport vehicles to EVedit

ET Auto

Supreme Court of India on Friday has asked Ministry of Road Transport to convert more of the public transport vehicles into the cleaner electric vehicles.

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It’s Time Production of EVs Becomes Commercially Viable: Manufacturersedit

The Economic Times

In another panel discussion, Sun Mobility cofounder Chetan Maini said: “Decoupling battery cost along with vehicle cost will be a good business solution.” The EV has to act as a bridge for joining shared mobility with two and three wheelers & buses, he said, adding: “Government policies on electric vehicles have to be technology agonistic.”

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Faridabad to get 100 electric busesedit

The Tribune

The Transport Department is likely to introduce at least 100 electric buses in the city in the next six months. The authorities have already acquired a bus for prelaunch testing at the HERC workshop in Gurugram.

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ETAutoEVC2020: Adoptability of EVs in India depends on right affordability say expertsedit

The Economic Times

Industry experts are of the view that this is the right time for the government to give the momentum to EV ecosystem by policies aimed at incentivising R&D and cost of the EVs which will propel consumers to buy these electric vehicles. Unless there are vehicles on the road, we cannot make the transition.

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SC seeks Centre’s views on plea for EV’s as public transportedit

The Week End Leader

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to respond on a PIL seeking faster conversion of public transport into electric vehicles (EVs) to safeguard the common people from the increasing menace of air pollution, which directly impacts their health.

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Code, Cloud & Carsedit

The Economic Times

Carmakers are partnering with hardware and software developers to get that smart edge. Take MG Hector, China’s SAIC Motor’s first offering in India. It has partnerships with Cisco, Microsoft, SAP, iTeligence, Adobe, Cognizant, Panasonic and TomTom (for maps).

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Union Budget 2020 | From GST cut to another EV boost, auto industry seeks bold fiscal measures to revive growthedit

English Jagran

In the last budget, the government had provided subsidies to boost electric vehicles sale. To make EVs affordable to customers, additional income tax of Rs 1.5 lakh was deducted on interest paid on loans take to purchase electric vehicles.

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Road Ministry not open to relax norms for electric two-wheelers, here’s whyedit

The Financial Express

By Pritish Raj

The transport ministry is understood to have turned down the suggestions made by Niti Aayog to relax the conditions which make electric two-wheelers eligible for incentives under the FAME-II scheme, a government’s subsidy programme, sources said.

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Green vehicles to dominate auto expoedit

The Hindu

The latest edition of auto expo — The Motor Show 2020 — will be dominated by vehicles with clean energy technology, mostly electric vehicles, which will be showcased by global and local automobile companies, according to the organisers. Since the BS-VI regime will kick in from April 1, 2020 in India, almost all conventional vehicles makers will be displaying their BS-VI range, a technology targeted at reducing carbon emissions.

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Flying taxis are real but not quite ready for take-off yetedit

Live Mint

Once a part of comic book and movie folklore, flying taxis are expected to be a reality soon. However, commercial take-off may take longer than we think. In most big cities, commuters waste hours on the road because of traffic. Metro rails may be faster than driving to your destination, but there will soon be an option to book a flying taxi using a ride sharing app and fly to said destination.

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Budget 2020 expectations from two-wheeler industry: ‘Reviving rural economy can help tackle current slowdown’edit

The Financial Express

The PM Narendra Modi-led government will present the first budget of its second term on 1st February, as many are expecting Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to announce a reduction in GST on EVs, support localisation of battery technology, reconsider GST component in tyre pricing, etc. Electric two-wheeler startup Evolet and TVS Eurogrip have this to say in their pre-budget expectations:

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Adopting electric mobility: The ride-sharing modeledit

The Economic Times

One giant step in that direction is electrifying our vehicles. Promotion of Electric Vehicles (EVs) need interventions at four levels: Reducing the cost of EVs, longer battery life, adequate charging infrastructure, and incentivizing faster adoption.

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What is driving electric three-wheelers to a competitive market in Indiaedit

The Economic Times

Being the only space growing at a healthy rate amidst the industry wide slowdown, ETAuto interacted with the smaller players of the electric three-wheeler segment, who occupy a major chunk in the Indian market.

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EV makers target delivery, logistics firms to widen marketedit

The Economic Times

Electric vehicle makers are seeing traction in selling to e-commerce players, last mile delivery providers and third party logistics companies in a step to widen market access for green energy products, before they could make a dent in the passenger segment in the country.

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Shift is EVs, E2Ws is inevitableedit

The Pioneer

The Government has been encouraging the adoption of Electric Vehicle (EV) technology; and the Budget also announced a bouquet of incentives for them. The NITI Aayog proposed a ban on internal combustion engine (ICE)-powered two-wheelers (below 150cc) and three-wheelers by 2023-24.

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Budget 2020: GST reduction, R&D boost, more on auto MSMEs wish list for Nirmala Sitharamanedit

The Financial Express

To promote the sales of electric vehicles, the government has taken a positive step of announcing GST rate reduction from 12 per cent to 5 per cent, and income tax benefit on the interest component of the loan taken to buy an electric vehicle.

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AMC to be Indias first civic body to install EV charging points in its multilevel parking lotsedit

Ahmedabad Mirror

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will become the first civic body in the country to provide facility to charge electric vehicles in its multilevel parking lots. Tendering process for the project has been completed and installation of charging points is likely to be completed soon.

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REIL, TSREDCO join hands to create EV Charging Infra in Telanganaedit

Telangana Today

Telangana State Renewable Energy Development Corporation Limited (TSREDCO) and the public sector Rajasthan Electronics & Instruments Limited (REIL) have entered into an agreement to promote e-mobility. A memorandum of understanding was signed here on Saturday for creating Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure in the State under the FAME Scheme of Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India.

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Govt measures to help India secure sustainable energy future: Niti vice-chairmanedit

The Financial Express

Various Policy Initiatives undertaken by the government will help India achieve a secure, affordable and sustainable energy future, Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar said on Friday. Kumar said India has taken significant steps in improving energy efficiency and cleaner transport with electric vehicles

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BMC to soon setup charging station for e-vehicles at parking lot in South Mumbaiedit

Yahoo News

To promote the usage of electric vehicles (EVs) in India, the government has approved a plan to establish 2,636 charging stations for EVs throughout the country. These charging stations will be spread across 62 cities in 24 states and Union Territories. As a part of the plan, out of the 2,636 charging stations, 1,633 will be rapid charging stations.

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Electric Vehicles: All Charged Upedit

India Legal Live

The policy also incentivises buyers by providing waivers of road tax, registration charges, provision for onetime MCD parking and permit fee and subsidies up to Rs 29,000 on twowheelers. It also provides incentives for recycling of nonEVs and consumers willing to switch to EVs. This would boost employment in the sector and assist authorities in managing waste generated by scrapping vehicles.

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Auto Industry Seeks Tough Measures In Budget To Revive Growthedit

Business Standard

It would also help in reducing cost of electric vehicles and aid in accelerating adoption of green mobility in the country, another source said. He added that a formal incentive based scrappage policy with monetary support from the government as well as manufacturers is required to take old vehicles off the roads and generate demand for new vehicles.

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Global NEV market to grow to $567,299.8 million by 2025edit

The Economic Times

The new energy vehicles include not only battery electric vehicles, but plugin hybrid (PHEV) and hybrid electric vehicles as well. China is going to play a key role in this growth of the NEVs, as the biggest market for the greener powertrain equipped vehicles are expected to attribute 25 per cent of the countrys total auto sales by 2025, as the Chinese government targets.

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Give priority to public transportation during evehicle shift: ASCEND 2020edit

UNI India

They were speaking at a panel discussion on Projects on Mobility Development and Electric Vehicles at the twoday meet that kicked off here on Thursday. The future of transportation lies in evehicles and hydrogen vehicles. We hope that the introduction of evehicles in the public transport system can be done in collaboration with private sector players, said KR Jyothilal, Principal Secretary, Transport, Government of Kerala.

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EESL EV tender failed as vehicles were not for personal use: Pawan Goenkaedit

The Financial Express

Goenka believes the EESL programme benefited in one way, that electric vehicles came into the limelight. Before the tender, nobody talked about EVs. Post that EVs became an attraction and many realised that it is a dream not far from realisation, Goenka said.

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BMC parking lot at SoBo to get charging stn for e-vehiclesedit

Hindustan Times

South Mumbai is set to get its first electric vehicle charging station with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) deciding to set one up inside the civic body-owned parking lot at Hutatma Chowk. The BMC plans to have charging stations at the parking lots it owns citywide.

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Boom Time for Vehicle Telematics in the 2020’sedit

CXO Today

Based on driving behaviors, a car with a telematics device installed can save up to 30% on insurance premiums. In addition, technologies such as cloud, Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the way this industry operates.

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Public charging infrastructure will be key to electric vehicle success in India: Anant Nahata, MD, Exicomedit

SME Futures

However, several challenges remain. India, unlike the US and China, is still far behind in terms of creating proper charging infrastructure for electric vehicles – and, this could be one of the major challenges that may hinder the government’s 30 per cent EV mobility dream by 2030.

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Kozhikode to get 26 electric vehicle charging stationsedit

The Times of India

The Kerala State Electricity Board is set to start 26 electric vehicles charging centres in the district. The plan is to start charging stations with the support of empanelled agencies and private parties.

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Electric twowheeler manufacturers learning to live without FAME II subsidy Reportedit

Indian Autos Blog

The Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicle (SMEV) suggests that most of the electric twowheeler manufacturers are learning new ways to survive in the Indian market without the government support through FAMEII subsidy. SMEV also adds that the subsidy has not met its objective.

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Electric bicycles can help transform transportationedit

The Economic Times

When we talk about Electric Vehicles, most of the governments thrust is on electric cars only. However, ebikes are another rapidly emerging segment globally in the field of electricity powered vehicles.

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DHI approves 141 EV charging stations in Bengaledit

The Statesman

The Department of Heavy Industries (DHI) of the Union government has approved 141 Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations in West Bengal under the second phase of the FAME India ( Faster Adoption of Electric Vehicles in India) programme.

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UT stops registering petrol, diesel autosedit

The Times of India

The Union ministry road transport and highways had suggested initiatives to promote electric vehicles, like waiving of toll charges, parking charges and issuing green registration number plates. The government has already framed a National Electric Mobility Mission Plan, which aims at promoting hybrid and electric vehicles in the country.

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Telangana: Roadmap on 138 EV charging stations in a weekedit

Telangana Today

The Central government approved 2,636 EV charging stations across 62 cities in 24 States and Union Territories under phaseII of Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India (FAME India) scheme. It envisages that at least one charging station will be available in a grid of 4kmx4km area so that the travelers can have a hasslefree drive.

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Ecofriendly mode, ON!edit

The Asian Age

The urgent energy crisis and ongoing change in climate have shaken the entire world. Switching to efficient and renewable sources of energy and curbing the greenhouse gas emission is of utmost importance at present.

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Kerala to get 131 new charging stations for electric vehiclesedit

English Mathrubhumi

In order to encourage electric vehicles and reduce carbon emission, the central government has given sanction for setting up 2,636 charging stations in 62 cities across 24 states including Kerala and union territories under the FAME (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India) India scheme. As part of the scheme, Kerala will get 131 charging stations in Kochi, Thrissur, Kannur and Kozhikode.

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Govt approves 2,600 EV charging stationsedit

The Times of India

Giving a major impetus to electric vehicle (EV) mobility the government has approved installation of 2,600 EV charging stations in 62 cities under FAME II. Tamil Nadu will get 256 such charging stations while the union territory of Puducherry will get 10. Maharashtra tops the number of charging points with 317 followed by Andhra Pradesh with 266.

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BSNL-EVIT pactedit

The Statesman

Electric vehicle charging infrastructure provider EVI Technologies (EVIT) on Monday said it has inked a pact with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) for setting up battery swapping and charging stations. As part of the 10-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) inked between the two entities, EVIT would install charging infrastructure at 5,000 locations of BSNL across the country, covering major cities.

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Opinion | Creating New EV Jobs For an Economy On The Moveedit

News 18

It would also be a suitable agenda point in the endeavour for the $5 trillion economy by 2025, as envisioned by this administration. The future of clean mobility technology is decidedly EV and the industry, government and other stakeholders should work together to transition India’s massive workforce to jobs of the future.

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Govt. to set up 256 E-vehicle charging stations in TNedit

Trinity Mirror

The government will set up 256 electric vehicle charging stations in Tamil Nadu under the FAME India scheme which will encourage original equipment manufacturers to launch new electric vehicle models, Heavy Industries Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday.

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Is this really the demise of the auto industry?edit

ET Wealth

Nothing like Uber or Ola ever existed earlier. I mean, taxi is not a new phenomena in this world, but the scale at which such companies can organise and aggregate information, transforms the simple act of calling a taxi into a completely new kind of activity. The kind of strong waves of change that are hitting the auto industry happen once every few years. In fact, in the beginning of the auto industry, there was a similar shift from animal-drawn urban transport to motorised transport

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Govt approves 2,600 EV charging stationsedit

 The Times of India

The developing market is very economics driven and here the top down approach of scaling down from pricey electric cars won’t happen,” he explained. “Here it will be bottom up with two, three wheelers and small commercial vehicles converting first because the economics favour it.” This bottom end of the pyramid needs to be catered to

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Electric 2-wheeler makers learning to survive without subsidy: SMEVedit

Business Standard

Mass segment electric two-wheeler makers are learning to “live without government support” as FAME II scheme to promote electric mobility has not met its objective, according to industry body SMEV. The Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicle (SMEV) said after getting a “shock” when FAME II was implemented from April 1, 2019, the industry has devised ways to keep afloat by selling low to mid-speed vehicles, which don’t qualify for incentives at heavy discount but incurring losses in the process.

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Will 2020 bring more electric vehicles?edit

Times Now News

Electric vehicles have been a rather contentious topic, especially in India. There are a variety of reasons that make EVs a tad problematic in the context of our country, including the fact that we lack severely in the infrastructure department. While the government has been pushing for the increased adoption of such vehicles among the masses, the fact remains that till the many questions and issues regarding charging infrastructure in India are addressed, mass adoption will continue to be slow

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Delhi’s Electric Vehicle Policy Passed Here’s What It Promisesedit

The Quint

The Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi has laid out an ambitious road map to increase the presence of electric vehicles on the city’s road by the year 2025. For this, the government has passed the Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy, which was first drafted back in November 2018.

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Auto industry yet to submit study to Niti Aayog on EV transitionedit

The Times of India

The automobile industry is yet to submit its report on road map to transition two and three-wheelers to full electric vehicles, according to a senior government official. At a meeting with industry representatives in June last year, the Niti Aayog had asked the industry to come back within two weeks with concrete steps towards the transition but manufacturers had stated they would need a minimum of four months to work on the same.

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MSRTC to set up eight charging ports for e-buses in cityedit

The Times of India

To facilitate e-bus services from the city, Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has decided to raise eight charging ports for buses at the Nashik depot-1. “Currently we have been asked to initiate the procedure for creating infrastructure for power chargers at Nashik depot.

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An electric bus fleet is on its wayedit

Bangalore Mirror

We have been waiting for long for the introduction of Electric buses. So, will we have an electric fleet by 2020? BMTC officials say that they will make every effort to take forward the proposal of introducing electric buses. BMTC proposes to invigorate its ageing fleet by introducing 6,000 new buses. At least a few of this lot may hit the roads in 2020.

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Electric Vehicle battery recycling presents a big opportunityedit

The New Indian Express

According to Kashyap, there is a need to have clear guidelines for collection, storage, transportation and recycle of waste or used lithiumion batteries. Furthermore, the number of electric vehicles (EVs) will increase in future and will result into rise in the volume of used batteries in the ecosystem, which if left untreated would lead to health and environmental hazards, so managing them will become a necessity, he added.

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Dadra and Nagar Haveli Tenders for EV Charging Stationsedit

Saur Energy

The UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli has issued a tender, inviting bids from eligible bidders for the commissioning of EV charging stations in the UT. Dadra Nagar Haveli EV Charging The Union Territory (U.T.) of Dadra and Nagar Haveli (DNH) has issued a tender, inviting bids from eligible bidders for the commissioning of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the UT.

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Industry News: Future of Work

Why businesses must go beyond rainbows in logos for truly diverse workplacesedit

The News Minute

While there is genuine interest among businesses to be inclusive, they run the risk of reinforcing stereotypes with uninformed and bad strategic decisions. Early in my career, I witnessed a senior leader in the organisation I was working for gift a cookbook and a rose to all the female employees in his team, on womens day. Later, I asked one of my friends what she felt about the gesture that reinforces stereotypes. She shrugged and said, At least they remember.

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These are the jobs of tomorrow, says WEFedit

CNBC TV18

By Niral Sharma

Growth in clusters and jobs is highest among care roles and smallest among green professions. The highest demand skills required in emerging professional clusters span both technical and cross functional skills.

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Techies return home as startup dreams turn souredit

The Economic Times

By Ayan Pramanik

Skills that were in high demand at tech startups include coding, big data analytics and data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence and internet of things. These skills are also in demand at large IT companies, said analysts.

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Cyber security professionals in big demand: Over 67,000 job openings, says estimateedit

The Economic Times

By Rica Bhattacharya

The quantum of digital and cyber data assets that the growth in internet penetration throws into the cloud and hardware infrastructure, has led to multiplying of the need for monitoring and securing this data thus leading to the increase in demand for cyber security experts. The thrust to Cyber Security is also due to e-Governance and centralization.

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3 ways AI powered hiring can make up for the shortfall in talentedit

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This is the age of automation intelligent systems and machines born out of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. They’re robust, state-of-the-art, and constantly evolving tech made by humans, for the humans.

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Indias IT workforce may become obsolete unless govt supports reskilling program: NASSCOMedit

Live Mint

There has been a spurt in funding in deep tech startups, as investor interest in niche products and platforms has increased significantly. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Machine Learning (ML), and virtual reality (VR) are leading the startup space, according to the IT body, which represents the $180 billion Information Technology Business Process Management industry in India.

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Digital tech firms need gig employment rules, incubation supportedit

Live Mint

By R Srinivasan

There is a lot to be done in terms of incubation of startups, deeper government engagement with the startup ecosystem and differentiated services for rural India, among other issues. As the country faces a sharp slowdown, here are my expectations that I hope the government will address:

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HR trends that will rule 2020edit

People Matters

The use of AI will surely govern the enterprises in 2020. The robotics technology is gradually and expeditiously establishing itself. It is a great help in recruiting procedure. However, robots cannot replace the human tenacity entirely but it is sure to add on to the abilities. Recruiters can be reliant on them.

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Enabling business outcomes at the speed of innovationedit

The Economic Times

Rajiv Arora, Regional CIO APAC, Middle East & South Africa and Group Cyber Security Officer (India), Siemens, said, Workforce automation is a challenge faced by firms during digital transformation. In our case, infrastructure was not a challenge; it was the change in employee mindset. People are used to the older ways of thinking and adopting new technologies such as AI or AR/VR is not easy.

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AI in 2020: What to expect from data and AI this year and beyondedit

People Matters

By Anushree Sharma

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undoubtedly been the technology story of the 2010s, and it doesnt look like the excitement is going to wear off as a new decade dawns.HR technology will continue to be white hot in 2020, as per by a famous HR tech influencer. It is true because companies operating in a talent dominated environment are continuously seeking to invest in tools to help them better recruit, develop and support their workforces.

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Technology disruption, workplace experience is the future of facility managementedit

The Economic Times

In the legacy model FM operations had considerable budget restraints, which limited innovation and efficiency. However, buildings can now leverage existing automation systems to churn contextual insights from untapped data, making more of the assets that are already available. IoT technology makes existing systems smarter, rather than replacing them with a new generation of expensive inputs.

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Indian tech industry facing biggestever HR challenge, needs to recruit, skill 2 million professionals: Reportedit

Express Computer

Newage digital professionals proficient in artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) are being called upon to enter the talent workforce with a new set of skills, he added. As per the report, addressing the challenges of reskilling the aspiring and existing technology workforce will require change and initiatives from all stakeholders.

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At 98%, Indians most open to workplace automationedit

The Times of India

In a survey of around 10,000 professionals worldwide (10% Indian workers) by robotics process automation firm Automation Anywhere, Indian participants emerged as the most excited about experimenting with automation to reduce workload with 98% of them saying so.

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HR Pros Focus On Employee Experienceedit

News Today

About 77 per cent of the HR professionals surveyed in India said they are increasingly focussed on employee experience to enhance talent retention, a report by LinkedIn said on Thursday

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At 98%, Indians most open to workplace automationedit

The Times of India

In a survey of around 10,000 professionals worldwide (10% Indian workers) by robotics process automation firm Automation Anywhere, Indian participants emerged as the most excited about experimenting with automation to reduce workload with 98% of them saying so.

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Tomorrows Workplace: Humans And AI Coexisting As Colleaguesedit

BW People

For decades AI has aroused both fear and excitement. Mostly, there has been widespread fear of the possibilities of increased unemployment on account of workplace automation. However, in reality, APAC perception towards AI in the workplace has shifted more positively as more and more people developed a better understanding of AI and its applicability in the workplace to manage productivity.

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Indian tech industry faces biggestever challenge to recruit and skill over 2 million professionals, says reportedit

CNBC TV18

The Indian technology industry is facing its biggest ever HR challenge with the need to recruit and skill more than 2 million professionals, as growing demand for exponential tech professionals puts extreme pressure on it to remain globally competitive, according to a report.

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84% Indians Hope to Retain Their Jobs Despite Automation: WEFedit

News Gram

India tops the list in terms of expectation of jobs automation, as around 71 per cent respondents expect their jobs to be automated. Saudi Arabia comes second with 56 per cent respondents expecting jobs getting automated, and in China 55 per cent respondents feel the same.

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How artificial intelligence will change HR in 2020edit

The Financial Express

Diversity and inclusion: Practices to become a more diverse workspace will remain a focus area this year and beyond. The epitome of the modern world lies in diversity. Companies will also increase investment in upskilling their workforce by introducing advanced learning modules and even collaborating with other companies for training.

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Talent shortages are at record highs: ManpowerGroupedit

People Matters

Manpower Groups research report on Talent Shortage 2020 revealed that more employers than ever 54% reported talent shortages almost doubled as compared to a decade ago globally, and 63% in India. ManpowerGroup surveyed 14,000 individuals across 15 countries to understand what attracts them to an organization, what keeps them there and how that varies by geography, gender and at different stages of their career.

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Future of Workedit

Business Today

Leading experts on the radical changes in jobs, workplace, skills, privacy and employee well-being Jobs, workplace, wages, well-being, governments and regulators are all in the midst of a whirlpool of change as a host of internal and external factors drive how we will work in the future.

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A quick look at skilling initiatives in 2020edit

People Matters

Skill building and talent developments have been an important area of focus over the last year. Both public and private institutions have over the course of 2019 raised their investments into building and executing nuanced learning programs, all with the aim of bridging the skill gap. With productivity and profitability of the firm linked to its talent pool, business leaders across the board agree that reskilling initiatives are the need of the hour.

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73% software developers willing to invest up to Rs 20,000 yearly for upskilling: TechGigedit

The Times of India

The study shows that about 87% of respondents are looking to learn or adopt a new software development technology in the year 2020. Of these, about 73% of IT professionals are willing to pay Rs 10,00020,000 per year for upskilling

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69% of managers workload will be automated by 2024: Gartneredit

Live Mint

Some organizations are successfully using AI to make work accessible for those with special needs, said Poitevin. Restaurants are piloting AI robotics technology that enables paralyzed employees to control robotic waiters remotely. With technologies like braillereaders and virtual reality, organizations are more open to opportunities to employ a diverse workforce.

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What top CEOs think about AI, upskilling for future jobs: Read on to find outedit

CNBC TV18

Prevailing sentiments are not positive and CEOs feel that the global economy is not going to pick up steam anytime soon, While concerns over data collection, cybersecurity and privacy continue to haunt executives, they are keen on adopting artificial intelligence.

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What Does New Age Work Culture Entailedit

BW Education

A second aspect of new age skills is flexibility. With the emergence of gig economy, the rigid boundaries of office environment physical infrastructure, time of work, place of work etc. which are, to some extent, considered sacrosanct today, are getting dimmed. Getting work done is gaining greater currency than following a rigid process.

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Virtual bosses may oust middle managers in 10 yearsedit

The Times of India

The report calls human and technology productivity a killer combo where technology will not take away the jobs but will become a coworker. From recruiting to performance reviews, departments of robot resources will rival human resources by 2028. Artificial intelligence itself can replace nearly 400 million workers globally over the next decade. It means organisations would need workers that can work with AI.

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The hits and misses of using Artificial intelligence for recruitmentedit

Live Mint

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been occupying some of the best minds of this century, but the hype around it is just as massive. AI is entering everyday lives and products, and many of us find ourselves in positions, where we need to evaluate the genuineness of claims to using AI.

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Most executives are out of touch to lead in digital economy, shows studyedit

The Economic Times

By Rica Bhattacharya

A generation of leaders in large companies are out of sync, out of tune, and out of touch with their workforces, markets, and competitive landscapes, said Benjamin Pring, report coauthor and director of the Center for the Future of Work for Cognizant, in a press statement on the Cognizant website.

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The boss machine is here AI is all set to eliminate middle management in 8 yearsedit

Business Insider

By Prerna Sindwani

The massive pace at which companies are adopting automation and artificial intelligence may lead to elimination of middle management roles over the next decade. Smart machines will soon become coworkers changing the modus operandi of how employees work.

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Employees Spend over 3 Hours a Day on Easily Automatable Tasks: Studyedit

Indian Web2

Office workers are ready to welcome automation of repetitive digital tasks, as on an average employees spend more than three hours a day on mundane computer tasks which are not part of their primary job and are ripe for human error, a survey said on Tuesday.

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When five gens meet in the officeedit

Live Mint

Next comes Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980, who account for about 30% of the global workforce. But its Gen Y (born 198196), or millennials, and Gen Z (born after 1996), also known as Digital Natives, who will dominate the future workplace.

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India to see 1.5 lakh openings for data scientists in 2020edit

Telangana Today

While there has been an increase in the number of professionals upskilling in data science, the job growth has outpaced this number, leading to lucrative career opportunities. While the current analytics talent, especially at senior levels, have migrated from IT, the next generation will be expected to have specialized skills in data across all prominent industries making upskilling mandatory for a role in the new economy, said the report.

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Top emerging global talent trends for 2020edit

People Matters

As angst about the future of the economy grows, talent professionals are recommending that people, even those who have a job, look to sharpen their skill sets. But that doesnt have to mean going back to get additional degrees. Instead, professionals across many industries are seeking programs to help them gain certifications, accreditations and niche skills.

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Year 2020: The year to reskill yourselfedit

The Financial Express

This year will witness organisations placing greater emphasis on transparency, agility, culture and purpose driven leadership. As per a recent study, 54% of the worlds workforce will need reskilling and upskilling by 2022. Some of the key reskilling trends of 2020 are:

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Now Hiring: 1.5 lakh Data Scientistsedit

The Economic Times

India is expected to see 1.5 lakh new job openings in data science this year, which is an increase of about 62% from last year, according to a report prepared by an edtech firm. A majority of these jobs would preferably be for professionals with less than five years of experience.

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What’s next for the future of work?edit

Tech Radar

This year, more and more businesses are embracing new technology and ways to increase productivity. However, according to Asana’s Anatomy of Work Index, workers are spending 60% of their time at work doing avoidable tasks like searching for information or sharing updates on work something we call ‘work about work’.

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What will define workplaces in the near future?edit

VC Circle

By the end of 2019, one of the bright spots of the realty sector was the growth seen in the commercial spaces segment. Office purchase and leasing were on the rise, and the sector even saw some of the biggest investments being made towards Grade A commercial spaces

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The future of HR in 2020edit

People Matters

The advances made in technology have resulted in a dizzying rate of transformation and disruption in the business world and organizations have been forced to be on their toes. As we reach the end of this decade, here are a few trends that will shape the future workforce and human resources industry in 2020.

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Is AI the Go-to Option For Modernizing a Workplace?edit

Silicon India

AI provides a support system which could answer an employee’s queries spontaneously. Generally, various departments of the organization have a lot of crucial works such as HR team holding the responsibility of improvising the workplace to benefit the employees, IT working on the network and data security, while, the management would focus on conducting events and parties.

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A look under the hood: Here’s how IT companies are upskilling tech savvy employeesedit

The Financial Express

The ground reality, however, indicates that the industry is grappling with a serious skills shortage. India came in at No. 44 on technology skills, out of 60 countries in Coursera’s 2019 Global Skills Index. We ranked low across top skill areas like computer networking (cloud, IoT, blockchain), databases, HCI, security engineering and software engineering.

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The hits and misses of using Artificial intelligence for recruitmentedit

Live Mint

And now, I come to what I call fake products riding the AI wave. A vendor once approached us claiming their product could predict criminal tendency in an individual with an accuracy of 60%, and suggested we use this tool to evaluate our delivery boys. This means there is a 40% probability that it would classify someone with no criminal tendency as one with a criminal tendency.

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Why Should Hiring Big Data Talent Become a Key for Businesses in 2020edit

Analytics Insight

The tools of big data analytics can be utilized to spot cybersecurity threats, including malware or ransomware attacks, compromised and weak devices, and malicious insider programs. With these capabilities, big data analytics seems the most promising approach to improve cybersecurity

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STEM related Job Profiles Grew 44% In 3 Years: Reportedit

Business World

As job postings in STEM have seen consistent growth in India over the past three years, it is promising to see job seekers take an increasing interest in these roles as well. With advancements in several areas of science and technology such as robotics, the internet of things (IoT), there is likely to be demand for tech talent across sectors, Venkata Machavarapu, head of engineering, India and Site Director at Indeed India, said.

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HR trends that will dominate corporates in 2020edit

Hindustan Times

The HR industry experienced a drastic change because of the alignment of the workforce in 2019. Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning technologies have become new trends in the HR industry. HR industry expecting AI and cognitive technologies to mature further in the year 2020. The predictive analytics will be giving powerful insights around performance and hiring trends.

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How talent agility leads to business successedit

The Financial Express

Even as more and more people are joining the workforce globally, an increasing number of organisations across sectors are witnessing skills gap due to technological advancements. The WEOs Future of Jobs report noted that 54% of all professionals will require reskilling/upskilling by 2022.

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How Bad Is The Cybersecurity Talent Gap In The Industry?edit

Analytics India Mag

That’s part of why it’s so essential to hire talented cybersecurity experts. However, unfortunately, most companies are finding it challenging to meet that requirement. There aren’t enough people to fill the available cybersecurity roles. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs by 2021.

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Eight health-tech hiring trends for 2020edit

People Matters

The healthcare ecosystem is rapidly shifting towards innovative care delivery models such as virtual, remote, and alternate care. The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), advanced data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) as well as other emerging technologies and data-driven tools, is changing the nature of healthcare solutions and delivery systems.

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Here’s why automation of jobs is very bad news for millennial workersedit

Business Standard

The rise of populist politicians across the rich world has led to a profound rethinking of the way developed economies work. In particular, the impact of automation on the labour market, and the disappearance of routine manufacturing jobs, has been blamed for the electoral successes of leaders such as US President Donald Trump and Italy’s Matteo Salvini.

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What to learn at the workplace in 2020edit

The Financial Express

There has been a fundamental shift in the way we work, and learning and development (L&D) leaders have the task of preparing the workforce in this changing environment. Learning at work has to be redefined so employees can cope with automation and AI in the business sphere. Employees must not only be very good at their jobs, but also be agile and continuously learn new skills to stay competitive.

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STEM related job postings rise 44% in 3 years: Reportedit

The Economic Times

As job postings in STEM have seen consistent growth in India over the past three years, it is promising to see job seekers take an increasing interest in these roles as well. With advancements in several areas of science and technology such as robotics, the internet of things (IoT), there is likely to be demand for tech talent across sectors, Venkata Machavarapu, head of engineering, India and Site Director at Indeed India, said.

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Competing with robots: How online learning can keep professionals winning in the futureedit

India Today

Further, according to the Future of Jobs report by FICCINasscom and EY, 2025% of existing jobs in the BFSI sector will not exist and 1520% of professionals will be working in job roles that do not exist today.

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Technology is an enabler that helps in the optimization of costs, and isnt a job stealeredit

Live Mint

Technology is an enabler that makes data available at a single touch and helps in cost optimization, collaborations and governance, experts said at a closeddoor roundtable meeting. At the event titled Microsoft Future of WorkCXO Dialogues, hosted by Mint in Mumbai last month, they also sought to dispel perceptions that digitization and automation were responsible for the loss of jobs.

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Readying the Workforce for the NextLevel of Tech Disruptionedit

CXO Today

India is fast moving toward becoming a digitally advanced country and we are witnessing significant change in the way businesses are transforming. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), robotic process automation (RPA), Internet of Things (IoT), etc. are speeding the pace of innovation and creating radical changes in every industry.

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Policy should not restrict highly skilled from joining workforceedit

Navhind Times

She said that Americans need to develop skills to compete in the long term. This, she said, is not just about training Americans for the jobs of future but also sensitising the potential employers to take care of their existing workforce as well and provide the ample opportunity to grow through retraining and reskilling.

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Recruitment Up at Fund-rich Logistics Firms Looking to Expand Turfedit

The Economic Times

Companies in the logistics sector are on a hiring spree this year, driven in large part by fresh rounds of funding and plans for expansion in new cities. Recruitment companies such as Quess and PeopleStrong said there would be a 20-25% uptick in jobs in sorting and packing centres and in middle and last-mile delivery. Other in-demand work profiles would include fleet and warehouse managers, loading supervisors, and seafarers.

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Defining the future of work with diversity & inclusion at the coreedit

People Matters

With breakthroughs in technologies, increased social movements, and globalization, diversity is inevitable and creating inclusive workplaces is a necessity. A Mckinsey research shows that companies that are more diverse are more productive, more efficient and give better returns to shareholders. Another report by BCG shows that companies that have more diverse management teams have 19 percent higher revenue due to innovation.

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Private companies to generate 7 lakh jobs in 2020: Surveyedit

The Indian Express

Shine.com CEO Zairus Master said reskilling will be a priority for existing employees in 2020. He noted that to address this skills shortage, recruiters are shifting their focus to hiring professionals with the ability to adapt to changing roles in flexible organisational structures.

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Future Brings An Employee-Centric Worldedit

Digital Learning

The future of work demands that organizations invest in creating a culture where creativity thrives, collaboration is facilitated, communication is encouraged, and the employee is made to feel content with his work. The current trend requires this cultural shift to be driven top-down with the effective involvement of employees.

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Employees to benefit from AI revolutionedit

Tech Radar

By Mark Dorman

Much has been said of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its manifestation in the ways people work globally. Technological progress benefits society as a whole, with new innovations changing lives and boosting productivity on a daily basis, yet questions linger over the downside to advancement, and its impact on employees.

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Revamping employee engagement strategiesedit

People Matters

Provide challenges, recognize and stay agile to engage: The business landscape may change by the time you have a talent engagement framework ready. Hence, be responsive to change by staying agile. This is an era of “dynamism” with new thrilling revelations every day and dealing with randomness is a skill in itself that leaders must acquire.

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Top-10 emerging jobs of 2020: Tech positions rule the roostedit

Money Control

Robotics Engineer (Software) – Careers in robotics engineering can vary between software and hardware roles, and the data shows engineers working on both virtual and physical bots are on the rise. The skills needed for this role include Robotic Process Automation (RPA), UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, Robotics and SQL.

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2020 Evolving Work Cultureedit

The Pioneer

The research firm also billed Internet of Things as the fifth driver of CRM in the The Nexus of Forces. The explosive growth of connected devices in recent years can be contributed to the rising interest towards IoT

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IT cos to hire 10% more freshersedit

Business Standard

In anticipation of demand, domestic IT services firms added more employees in the April-September period of FY20. The top five IT firms — TCS, Infosys, HCL Technologies, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra — added 64,332 employees in the first six months of the ongoing financial year, which is 18 per cent more than the corresponding period of FY19.

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Budget 2020: UGC seeks higher allocation for educationedit

Money Control

The UGC, whose mandate includes promoting and coordinating university education, is taking steps to improve the quality in higher education institutions (HEIs), he said. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has been undertaking efforts to make higher education relevant to the societal and national needs, its chairman D P Singh said.

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Budget 2020: How India can fix its education system and save its Demographic Dividendedit

The Economic Times

The future of work will be coded by digitisation, creativity and emotional intelligence and we need to ensure that the education we provide our children is in sync with the changing times. We need to acknowledge that there exists a huge gap in what skills we aspire to impart and what we are currently providing through the Indian education system.

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Budget 2020: UGC seeks higher allocation for educationedit

CNBC TV18

UGC chairman D P Singh said it has been undertaking efforts to make higher education relevant to the societal and national needs. Singh said the UGC has requested the Centre to allocate more funds for education in the upcoming Union budget for 202021.

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40k educational institutes to get accredited by 2022edit

The Times of India

As many as 25,000 higher education institutes in the country are bereft of accreditation as they are simply not ready to undergo the process from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council

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Budget 2020: Time to strengthen future of Indian educationedit

The Week

Upskilling and reskilling have become a fad lately. One of the biggest challenges India currently faces is to provide livelihoods to the educated youth and decent wages for the working classes in the organised and unorganised sectors. Automation has revolutionised industry and it has become imperative to attain the right skills in order to stay relevant in the competitive market.

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70% of higher edu institutions in state are not accredited: NAAC directoredit

The Times of India

Sharma, who was in the city on Monday to participate in the inauguration of Bharat Ratna Prof CNR Rao Research Centre at Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, told reporters that higher education institutions including engineering colleges, arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu were lagging behind in getting the NAAC accreditation.

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Enrolment ratio in higher education to be almost doubled in 10 years: HRD Ministeredit

ANI News

Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Sunday said the government has set an ambitious target of achieving a 50 per cent gross enrolment ratio (GER) as compared to the current 26.5 per cent in higher education by 2030 to equip the working population with employable skills.

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Budget 2020 Expectations: Heres what NBFCs, education financing companies are expecting from Budgetedit

The Financial Express

The 2019 Interim Budget announced an increase of 10 per cent in the education budget, for nationwide academic development. Similar changes are expected which will bring in more financial support to the education sector. Bringing in more technology in the classroom environments and introducing AI (artificial intelligence) with mainstream education are some of the major changes that can be brought.

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Why we need to revamp higher edu right nowedit

The New Indian Express

The two issues of significant interest that currently loom over the higher education scenario in India are the phenomenal numbers of high school graduates produced by the country annually and the relevance of what we provide to them in terms of higher education.

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These two ideas of UGC may reform education in India, liberate studentsedit

The Times of India

The UGC has finalised in idealevel two new programmes to reform higher education in the country national academic credit bank and semester outreach programme and formed teams to frame regulations for the same, said University Grants Commission vice chairman Bhushan Patwardhan on Wednesday.

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India joins WEF reskilling initiativeedit

The Hans India

India on Wednesday joined as a founding government member the World Economic Forums Reskilling Revolution, an initiative to provide one billion. Davos: India on Wednesday joined as a founding government member the World Economic Forums Reskilling Revolution, an initiative to provide one billion people with better education, skills and jobs by 2030.

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Budget 2020: Heres what academicians want for the education sectoredit

India Today

Education is, understandably, one of the most important investments a country can make in its people and its future. Our education system needs to be self-reliant and globally competitive. This will only be possible when the emerging technology trends are imbibed into the education pattern of the country.

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Allocation for education sector may hit 1 tnmarkedit

Live Mint

By Prashant K Nanda

In her budget proposals on 1 February, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman may announce more funds for a higher education research fund and for completing the work of centrally funded higher educational institutions, which have been established in last 10 years, including new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and central universities, two government officials said requesting anonymity.

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Will focus on higher education next term: Manish Sisodiaedit

India Today

Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia said while his first term was utilised in improving the government schools here, the next term, if re-elected, will be all about focusing on the higher education in the national capital.

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National Research Fund to be released soon: AICTEedit

Millennium Post

The Government of India will release it soon,” said Dr Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), on the sidelines of Leadership for Academics Program (LEAP) 2020, a Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) initiative hosted by Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research Kolkata held at Science City on Saturday.

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How STEM is educating students in four specific disciplines for better approachedit

The Asian Age

Padma Shri Kailash ‘Manav’ Founder and Chairman of Narayan Seva Sansthan said, “Celebrating 150 years of Father of our Nation, we have to celebrate his ideologies. Bapu always viewed education as an all-round development and not just as literacy. He stressed on whole development of a child, not just the mind.

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Budget 2020: Lets grow both edtech and skilltechedit

The Financial Express

Budget 2020 India: In Union Budget 2019, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed the New Education Policy (NEP) that acknowledged the importance of promoting skill development through schools as well as higher education with an emphasis on technology, including machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data analytics.

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Need To Rethink Higher Education In Indiaedit

Entrepreneur

This has made each of us and the leaders globally nervous. Any strategy can be disrupted tomorrow due to a change anywhere else in the world. There is a need to make sense of the world and understand how one cannot just fit into it but lead the rest. With the worlds youngest population, the biggest impact on India is on education and careers. The education sector needs to evolve to these changing needs. And time has already run out.

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Higher education institutions to get weightage for being Fitedit

Deccan Herald

Higher education institutions across the country have a chance to get weightage during National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) if they receive a star rating for keeping their campus fit. Under the Fit India Movement launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, University Grants Commission (UGC) has announced that it will award points for the grading obtained by the higher education institutions in Fit India Movement while doing NIRF.

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Five Strategies That Higher Education Leaders Need In 2020edit

Forbes

We’ve seen a number of shifts in the higher education landscape over the past few years. The online environment has grown while post secondary enrollment has fallen. Funding for higher education has decreased. The students that these institutions serve are increasingly diverse. The higher education landscape is changing, forcing leaders to adopt new strategies to meet new needs

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AICTE appoints Anurag Batra on the MDI Boardedit

BW Education

All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), a statutory body of the Government of India, has appointed Dr Anurag Batra as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon

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27 % STEM students opting for non-technical trainingsedit

The Hans India

Students majoring in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) are always considered as smart decision-makers and are congratulated for choosing a lucrative career path in our society. However, in the past few years, the number of STEM majors ending up finding satisfaction in non-technical jobs has grown immensely.

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Govts new initiatives to boost higher educationedit

The Times of India

Minister of state for higher education Bhanwar Singh Bhati on Sunday announced various programmes at Yuva Samvad organised by college education at Shiksha Sankul here. Under the programme New Initiatives in College, initiatives will be taken in colleges and enhance the quality of higher education

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Important Committees formed in 2019 for Education Sectoredit

Jagran Josh

From New Education Policy 2019 to approval for establishing new medical colleges in India, 2019 witnessed major reports and recommendations by important committees on diversified education issues. Let’s have a look at each one of them.

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Budget allocation for edu sector inadequate’edit

The Times of India

India’s annual public spending on education — at just 0.45% of the gross domestic product (GDP) — is inadequate to meet the goal of quality education for the country’s burgeoning and world’s largest young population, said education rights activist Sharad Javadekar of the Akhil Bharatiya Samajwadi Adhyapak Sabha.

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HRD Minister states that the New Education Policy is designed to strengthen the Nationedit

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Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Monday has stated that the new education policy has been put through a lot of scrutinies designed to strengthen the academics in order to influence the world through the ageold value system of India. The minister was delivering a lecture on A New Education Policy for a New India at a private university.

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Proposed new National Education Policy 2019 must create smooth path of process to change: Agarwaledit

United News of India

Engineers Without Borders (EWB) India Director Dr Ashok Agarwal has said that the proposed new National Education Policy 2019 must create a smooth path of the process to change. In his chief guest address at the three-day Indo Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) Annual Student Forum 2020 held at the Anurag Group of Institutions(AGI) at Venkatapur here on Sunday, Dr Ashok said that the National Education Policy 2019 is welcome, but there is a word of caution.

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HRD Ministry takes a leap forward in transforming education sectoredit

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mhrd.gov.in Human Resource Development Ministry took a leap forward in transforming the education sector with the motto of Education for All and Quality Education. In the year 2019, Dr K Kasturirangan Committee submitted the Draft National Education Policy to the ministry. The Government had initiated the process of formulating a New Education Policy to meet the changing dynamics of the requirements of the population with regard to quality education, innovation and research.

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